Wednesday, December 14, 2011

How Walking Started

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336927/title/Walking_may_have_had_wet_start

It has been discovered that African lungfish use their pelvic fins to pull themselves across the ocean floor.  Lungfish are related to the earliest four-legged vertebrates.  It is likely that the lungfish's version of walking on the sea floor eventually turned into walking.

 

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