Sentences with phrase «coelacanth evolved»

Matt Friedman, a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the US, has stumbled across a unique fossil that reveals how the coelacanth evolved its fins — previously considered to be close relatives of the hands and feet of land animals.

Evolutionist claimed the 350 million - year - old Coelacanth evolved into animals with legs, feet, and lungs.

Not exact matches

By comparing the genomes of 203 vertebrates, they first traced the origin of KZFPs back to a common ancestor of tetrapods (four - legged animals) and coelacanth, a fish that evolved over 400 million years ago.

While that is close to true for coelacanths, other famous «living fossils,» which have the slowest molecular evolutionary rate among vertebrates, the Lingula genome has been evolving rapidly, despite the lack of changes in appearance.

Recent fossil discoveries have shown that hands and feet evolved from an extinct ancestral fish with asymmetric fins, but the question of how the coelacanth got its symmetrical fins remained.

That Shoshonia and living coelacanths are different is perhaps not entirely surprising — coelacanths have, after all, been evolving for 400 million years.