New research on the fin development of the Australian lungfis elucidates how fins evolved into limbs with hands with digits. The main finding is that in lungfish a primitive hand is already present, ...

A study of catsharks reveals how alterations in the expression and function of certain genes in limb buds underlie the evolution of fish fins to limbs. The findings are reported by researchers from ...

Although present in more than 6,000 living species of fish, the adipose fin, a small appendage that lies between the dorsal fin and tail, has no clear function and is thought to be vestigial. A new ...

A study uncovers fresh insights into the structural changes that enabled fins to give rise to limbs during vertebrate evolution. The transformation of fins into limbs is marked by the appearance of ...

Fins and limbs and fins into limbs : the historical context, 1840-1940 / Peter J. Bowler -- Skeletal changes in the transition from fins to limbs / Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta -- A historical ...

Each time your fingers curl around an object, you are using a structure shaped over hundreds of millions of years. Human hands, like all vertebrate limbs, have a clear top and bottom: a palm, its ...