Coelacanth: The transitional fossil that wasn’t
(Copyright) by Jerry Bergman (Powder Springs, Georgia) For close to a century, evolutionists taught that certain traits of coelacanths (figs. 1 and 2), then known only as fossils (fig. 3), meant they were the precursors of four-limbed animals (tetrapods) that walked on land. For example, coelacanths had lobed fins (fig. 4) instead of rayed fins […]