BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossil fills out water-land leap

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossil fills out water-land leap: "Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution.

The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water.

The researchers' study, published in the journal Nature, says Ventastega curonica would have looked similar to a small alligator.

Scientists say the 365-million-year-old species eventually became an evolutionary dead end."