Fossile may be earliest arm bone

A tiny fossil found by a road cutting in Pennsylvania, US, could be the earliest example of an arm bone.

The 360-370-million-year-old humerus, or upper arm bone, indicates that limbs may have evolved for use in water and not to get around on land.

It suggests the earliest limbed animals were fish navigating shallow rivers, but its place in the evolutionary tree is the subject of some controversy.

US biologists have published details of the discovery in the journal Science.

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gryff

Excellent find. Especially the fact that sceintists have no idea where this bone belongs in the evolutionary tree.

I found dome more links for yo u to look at here looks like its a piece in the chain to the missing link when fish started to walk

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[Edited on 3-4-2004 by SE7EN]