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Our Digits, Rooted in Sharks, 500 Million Years Ago A Great White may not be gentle enough to tickle you under the chin before applying its deadly bite, but our finger and toes sprouted from what could be called a 500 million years genetic cookbook that sharks still possess, as found by a team at the University of Florida.While investigating development in shark embry...	15 August 2007 05:59 GMT

Fossil Fin Explains How Our Limbs Appeared The "dinosaur" of all living fishes is the coelacanth from the Indian Ocean. Scientists have been investigating the coelacanth, whose ancestors gave rise to amphibians (and due to further evolution to us) to understand the origin of our limbs. But a newly found 400 million-year-old fossilized fin from an odd primitiv...	1 August 2007 02:41 GMT

Chinese Shark Fin Soup Demand Could Exterminate Sharks During Our Lifetime Sharks have pervaded the Earth for over 450 million years, before any plant or animal got out of the water and colonized the terrestrial surface. Now they face extinction due to a human caprice: fin shark soup. This dish could cause extinction within a generation due to overfishing for their fins, has signaled on We...	19 July 2007 06:15 GMT

How Did Our Ancestors Pass From Fins to Limbs? Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) together with the sturgeons are the only survivors of a primitive group of fish which evolved earlier than 200 million years ago, before the emergence of the dinosaurs. This primitivism puts them closer to a basal evolutionary knot. Indeed, now they have come with a specific pattern of ...	24 May 2007 03:38 GMT

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