page_title: Walking fish
section_title: Evolutionary link
hierarchical_section_title: Walking fish / Evolutionary link
caption_attribution_description: drawing of Tiktaalik by dave souza Sources - illustrations and text used for reference (note links in articles to some enlarged illustrations): [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] Updated ion basis of article from Nature dated 6 April 2006. Also special thanks to Bud Neill's world renowned naturalist Mr. Craw K. Dile, who helps Lobey Dosser and Hannibal McCannibal with their quest. Licenced under cc-by-sa-2.5. Any re-use to attribute the work to dave souza and show the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dave_souza
context_page_description: A walking fish, is a fish that is able to travel over land for extended periods of time. Some other modes of non-standard fish locomotion include "walking" along the sea floor, for example, in handfish or frogfish.
context_section_description: The theory of evolution suggests that life originated in the oceans and later moved onto land, and paleontologists have long been looking for transitional fossils between ocean-living and land-living animals. In 2006, a fossil Tiktaalik roseae was found which has many features of wrist, elbow, and neck that already begin to look similar to those of tetrapods. It belongs to a group of lobe-finned fish called Rhipidistia, which according to some theories, were the ancestors of all tetrapods.
caption: Tiktaalik (reconstruction)
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