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Explore a distant era, around 400 million years ago, when vertebrates took their first steps on land. Most of the land animals we know today are descendants of these early adventurers. Watch fins turn to feet and gills to lungs as this ancient fish changes and pokes its head out of the water for the first time.
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Coelacanth

Year : 410 million years ago
Era : Devonian
Classification : Sarcopterygii
Habitat : Modern specimens
found in the Indian Ocean
Size : 6.5ft / 2m
Weight : 80kg / 176lbs
Diet : Carnivore

Coelacanth is an ancient member of a family of bony finned fish. It has two pairs of fins at the end of fleshy stalks supported by bones. These fleshy stalks are thought to have evolved into the legs of the first terrestrial tetrapods. Coecalanth is considered a “living fossil”. The first modern specimen was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938, meaning that the Coelacanth has changed very little in the over 400 million years of its existence!

Ichthyostega

Year : 365 million years ago
Era : Late Devonian
Classification : Tetrapoda
Habitat : Fossils found in Greenland
Size : 5ft / 1.5m
Diet : Carnivore

Ichthyostega is an intermediate form between that of fish and amphibians. With strong fore-limbs and lungs, it was suited for life in shallow waters and swamps. Ichthyostega’s tail still retained fin rays but was primarily used for balance rather than locomotion. A strong rib cage allowed Ichthyostega’s body to keep it’s shape even out of the water. Ichthyostega may have come onto to land to sun and warm itself and return to the water to hunt and reproduce.