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    Recognizably transitional fossils

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    The ancient elephant Moeritherium, as imagined by German naturalist painter Heinrich Harder around 1920.
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    Indohyus, a possible ancestor of whales that swam in shallow water 48 million years ago in what's now India.
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    Carl Buell
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    An artist's imagining of the ancestral turtle Odontochelys semitestacea, which lived in present-day China.
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    Marlene Donnelly
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    A partial skeleton of Odontochelys semitestacea, an ancestral turtle which had a shell covering its stomach but none on its back.
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    Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Beijing
  • Fish or Amphibian?
    Tiktaalik, an intermediate form between fish and amphibians that lived 375 million years ago.
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    Ted Daeschler
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    A life model of Tiktaalik alongside a plaster cast of its fossil.
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    A partial skull of Kryostega collinsoni, a temnospondyl or crocodile-like amphibian that lived 240 million years ago.
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    Christian Sidor
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    Recognizably transitional fossils

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