Oldest humerus found

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

Some nice work by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler on an early humerus 
of an amphibian that could push its body up, but couldn't walk. I 
have a report up at

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994843

and the paper is in Science.

It looks like the evolutionary "tree" for ancestral amphibians was as 
shrubby as the transition from bird to dinosaur, with lots of 
evolutionary experiments going on simultaneously.
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