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Meet _Qikiqtania_, a fossil fish with the good sense to stay in the water while others ventured onto land

  • Written by Thomas Stewart, Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State
Meet _Qikiqtania_, a fossil fish with the good sense to stay in the water while others ventured onto landAn artist's vision of *Qikiqtania* enjoying its fully aquatic, free-swimming lifestyle.Alex Boersma, CC BY-ND

Approximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land. These animals were early tetrapods, a lineage that would radiate to include many thousands of species including amphibians, birds, lizards and mammals....

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