Friday 24 January 2020

Walking Sharks Are Not Transitional Fossils

Image Mark V. Erdmann, Fair use dialogue





Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists would propose that once upon a time fish left their watery home and walked on dry land.

Science has a few of them. First, these and second, they are not these either.
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Now, scientist have spotted a shark that has evolved to walk on land.

“But some strange sharks are still evolving—and have even learned to walk. Meet the walking sharks”, begins an msn article about sharks."

These three-foot-long creatures live near Australia, and, as their name implies, move their pectoral fins in the front and pelvic fins in the back to plod along the seafloor—or even atop coral reefs, outside the water, at low tide. Such mobility allows the sharks to wriggle between tide pools and different areas of the reef to prey upon crabs, shrimp, small fish—just about anything they can find.
'During low tides, they became the top predator on the reef', says Christine Dudgeon, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.


About 400 million years ago, the ancestors of sharks and all other jawed vertebrates diverged. Since then, only about 1,200 species of sharks and rays have come into existence. The animals are, mostly, very slow to evolve, slow to reproduce, and long-lived, Gavin Naylor explains.”

But now they have evolved in the past nine million years.

Source:

Main, Douglas 2020. These sharks have evolved to walk on land—and they did it quickly MSN 24.1.