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		<title>By: I’ve got your missing links right here (17 December 2011) &#124; Not Exactly Rocket Science &#124; StigmaBot</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17256</link>
		<dc:creator>I’ve got your missing links right here (17 December 2011) &#124; Not Exactly Rocket Science &#124; StigmaBot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Lungfish can walk that means your ancestors might have walked underwater 400million yrs ago, before feet – good Carl Zimmer piece. [...] </description>
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		<title>By: Joan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17255</link>
		<dc:creator>Joan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I noticed Neil Shubin mentioned in the credits in the video. His book, &quot;Your Inner Fish&quot; is one of my favorites. I especially like to share his insight into the reason we get the hiccups (a leftover trait from the switch from gill breathing to lung breathing) with my creationist friends!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I noticed Neil Shubin mentioned in the credits in the video. His book, &#8220;Your Inner Fish&#8221; is one of my favorites. I especially like to share his insight into the reason we get the hiccups (a leftover trait from the switch from gill breathing to lung breathing) with my creationist friends!</p>
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		<title>By: I’ve got your missing links right here (17 December 2011) &#124; Not Exactly Rocket Science &#124; JoeShop</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17254</link>
		<dc:creator>I’ve got your missing links right here (17 December 2011) &#124; Not Exactly Rocket Science &#124; JoeShop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Lungfish can walk which means your ancestors may have walked underwater 400million yrs ago, before feet – great Carl Zimmer piece. [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Lungfish can walk which means your ancestors may have walked underwater 400million yrs ago, before feet – great Carl Zimmer piece. [...] </p>
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		<title>By: Maija Karala</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17253</link>
		<dc:creator>Maija Karala</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A very interesting article again. Thanks!

Perhaps the vaguely leglike use of fins is even older than lungfish. Bichirs, which are the basalmost branch of ray-finned fishes and also often depicted as living fossils, have rather interesting fins too. They have fleshy bases that make them look like the fins of the coelacanth or Australian lungfish, even though the internal structure is different. They use their fins to propel them through water, sometimes in alternative strokes. They also stand up on the bottom with their fins turned forward like toes, and drag themselves through vegetation with them.

They have other primitive characters as well, such as lungs, spiracles, external gills in larval stage and ampullae of Lorenzini.

The bichirs seem to have branched off the ray-finned fish lineage pretty soon after they branched off the lungfish-tetrapod lineage. I don&#039;t know if their mode of locomotion is the primitive one, but judging by their other ancient characters, it might be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A very interesting article again. Thanks!</p>
<p>Perhaps the vaguely leglike use of fins is even older than lungfish. Bichirs, which are the basalmost branch of ray-finned fishes and also often depicted as living fossils, have rather interesting fins too. They have fleshy bases that make them look like the fins of the coelacanth or Australian lungfish, even though the internal structure is different. They use their fins to propel them through water, sometimes in alternative strokes. They also stand up on the bottom with their fins turned forward like toes, and drag themselves through vegetation with them.</p>
<p>They have other primitive characters as well, such as lungs, spiracles, external gills in larval stage and ampullae of Lorenzini.</p>
<p>The bichirs seem to have branched off the ray-finned fish lineage pretty soon after they branched off the lungfish-tetrapod lineage. I don&#8217;t know if their mode of locomotion is the primitive one, but judging by their other ancient characters, it might be.</p>
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		<title>By: GLen Bleak</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17252</link>
		<dc:creator>GLen Bleak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If land animals evolved from fish, then Fins is a good start in evolving limbs for walking and in case of apes evolving hands. There are so many walking fish that live today and is recorded in the fossil record, the question is not that tetrapods evolve from walking fish, but which walking fish did tetrapods evolve from. Since we can&#039;t extract DNA from fossils and the existing walking fish of today could not be our ancestors, then this may be an unanswerable question. However, the only possible way of providing an answer is to find the oldest walking fish in the fossil record and make it the best candidate evolving into Tetrapods.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If land animals evolved from fish, then Fins is a good start in evolving limbs for walking and in case of apes evolving hands. There are so many walking fish that live today and is recorded in the fossil record, the question is not that tetrapods evolve from walking fish, but which walking fish did tetrapods evolve from. Since we can&#8217;t extract DNA from fossils and the existing walking fish of today could not be our ancestors, then this may be an unanswerable question. However, the only possible way of providing an answer is to find the oldest walking fish in the fossil record and make it the best candidate evolving into Tetrapods.</p>
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		<title>By: Jess Tauber</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17251</link>
		<dc:creator>Jess Tauber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok folks, take a deep breath and take some time to relax, wiggle your toes a bit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok folks, take a deep breath and take some time to relax, wiggle your toes a bit.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17250</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Carl, as a Queenslander I am long accustomed to living in relative proximity to Neoceratodus, which hasn&#039;t changed much as a genus in 90 million years. As living fossils go, it&#039;s one of the closest examples I can think of, even less changed than Latimeria, the coelacanth. As a child learning about evolution contemplating Australia&#039;s many droughts gave the old story of crawling from pond to pond a lot of cogency.  But like most old Darwinian Just-so stories your sage writings have taught me differently, for which I am grateful. And living fish which venture on to land show that fish had, and still have, more than one reason to leave the water. I often wonder when the Cephalopods will emulate their Molluscan cousins and make the same slow pilgrimage into the Great Dry? Will they challenge the hegemony of the Tetrapods?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Carl, as a Queenslander I am long accustomed to living in relative proximity to Neoceratodus, which hasn&#8217;t changed much as a genus in 90 million years. As living fossils go, it&#8217;s one of the closest examples I can think of, even less changed than Latimeria, the coelacanth. As a child learning about evolution contemplating Australia&#8217;s many droughts gave the old story of crawling from pond to pond a lot of cogency.  But like most old Darwinian Just-so stories your sage writings have taught me differently, for which I am grateful. And living fish which venture on to land show that fish had, and still have, more than one reason to leave the water. I often wonder when the Cephalopods will emulate their Molluscan cousins and make the same slow pilgrimage into the Great Dry? Will they challenge the hegemony of the Tetrapods?</p>
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		<title>By: Pesci che camminano &#171; Pianetablunews</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17249</link>
		<dc:creator>Pesci che camminano &#171; Pianetablunews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] per spiegare l’evoluzione secondo le teorie darwiniane era chiaro da tempo, come riporta Discover Magazine: sin da quando uno scettico Richard Owen, nel 1837, spulciando l’anatomia di un pesce speditogli [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] per spiegare l’evoluzione secondo le teorie darwiniane era chiaro da tempo, come riporta Discover Magazine: sin da quando uno scettico Richard Owen, nel 1837, spulciando l’anatomia di un pesce speditogli [...] </p>
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		<title>By: Lungfish nearly walk, shed light on the invasion of land &#171; Why Evolution Is True</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17248</link>
		<dc:creator>Lungfish nearly walk, shed light on the invasion of land &#171; Why Evolution Is True</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] work on the evolution of land-dwelling animals, Carl Zimmer has a nice piece at The Loom, &#8220;A long walk to land.&#8221;  Zimmer, of course, has been writing about the water-land transition for a long time, most [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] work on the evolution of land-dwelling animals, Carl Zimmer has a nice piece at The Loom, &#8220;A long walk to land.&#8221;  Zimmer, of course, has been writing about the water-land transition for a long time, most [...] </p>
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		<title>By: John Kubie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/#comment-17247</link>
		<dc:creator>John Kubie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I used to study snakes  — many hours a day, collecting data for my thesis. But I&#039;ve never understood how they moved. Perhaps snake locomotion evolved from an ancient limbless mechanism. But they certainly don&#039;t lumber or waddle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to study snakes  — many hours a day, collecting data for my thesis. But I&#8217;ve never understood how they moved. Perhaps snake locomotion evolved from an ancient limbless mechanism. But they certainly don&#8217;t lumber or waddle.</p>
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