Joel Kontinen
You can Thank this fish for your fingers. Evolutionists say. They are comfortable with the saying the fish is 380 million years old.
This 380-million-year-old fossil of a fish called Elpistostege watsoni has revealed that fingers evolved in vertebrates before the creatures wriggled out of the sea and evolved into land-dwelling creatures, as a new study describes.
Yes, even fish today have fingers but they’re not transitional. and, there is the once taught Latimeria chalumnae, that was taught was extinct but is now alive.
Other elpistostegalian fishes include the TIktaalik, known only from incomplete fossil specimens in the Canadian Arctic.
"This is the first time that we have unequivocally discovered fingers locked in a fin with fin-rays in any known fish," study senior author John Long, professor in palaeontology at Flinders University, said in a statement. "The articulating digits in the fin are like the finger bones found in the hands of most animals."
Yes, but this fish did not walk on its fins:
However, this fish likely didn't walk on its fins. There are too many small bones there, meaning that the fish had a lot of flexibility in the "finger" region, but these fingers weren't optimal for bearing weight on land. "Most likely, Elpistostege was swimming, but it could have stood on its pectoral fins on the bottom of shallow estuarine and fluvial water," Richard Cloutier said.
This is just a bit of evolutionary just so-story.
Source:
Geggel,Laura. 2020. Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows Live Science 18.3.
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