Financing the Skeleton Crew - Carboniferous Bones Need a Home

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THESE BONES NEED A HOME BECOME A FUNDING CHAMPION Click Here to Learn More Preserving a Beast Rhizodonts were enigmatic ‘lobe-finned’ fish that grew up to 8 meters in length and weighed in at several tons. They were large ambush predators whose behaviour and feeding strategy was much the same as that of today’s crocodiles. These huge fish could crawl on their powerful front fins, gulping air into primitive lungs and even, presumably, would chase its prey onshore. This remarkable feat doesn’t seem so surprising when one looks at the skeletons of their fins. Rhizodonts possessed  arm bones . Rhizodont cleithrum (left) and clavicle (above) Rhizodonts have recently been resolved as 'basal members of the Tetrapodomorpha’ which means  changing towards four-leggedness . They were part of the evolutionary history of vertebrates when land-animals separated from their fish-ancestors.  From fins into limbs – they’re the start of the movement....