Fish’s DNA May Explain How Fins Turned to Feet

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An article by the New York Times,  that the fish of researchers have decoded the genome of the coelacanth, a prehistoric-looking fish whose form closely resembles those seen in the fossils from 400 million years ago. This is feat is exciting because this is likely to shed light on the evolutionary question of what genetic alterations were needed to change a lobe-finned fish into the first land-dwelling tetrapod. Tetrapods, including people, descended from this group, and the coelacanth is more  closely related to people than to other fish, which is really cool to think about. For more information, you can check this article out, it goes into more detail about it :)