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Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish already possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) report University of Chicago researchers.

Ancient earth was marked by early mass extinctions that had increased sea levels when they happened in the Devonian period.

Read more about How fish evolved to walk - and in one case, turned into humans on Devdiscourse

A giant prehistoric fish, which likely ate our human ancestors in an ancient supercontinent, was found under a road. Click to read more.

Some fish species pull themselves forward using well developed fore-fins, while others “walk” along the ocean floor.

The discovery of remains of a lobe-finned fish, excavated by hand by Albany Museum and Rhodes Universitys Dr Rob Gess, was published in a paper this week.

A study published Wednesday introduced us to a new species of giant fish that may have eaten our human ancestors.

A regular letter contributor to this page recently argued that evolutionary theory is wrong because, among other things, “No one has ever seen or documented macro-evolution such as a dog

Researchers in South Africa have unearthed 360 million-year-old fossils belonging to a newly described voracious fish species that preyed on our ancestors.

Thomas Halliday, author of Otherlands, discusses the traits that help determine whether species become extinct or survive, and how the rules change during mass extinctions