Another missing link?

The theory of evolution is still "only a theory," but the fossil record seems to have yielded yet another compelling piece of evidence in its favor. From the New York Times (if that link doesn't work, try here):

Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought missing link in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land. ...

The skeletons have the fins, scales and other attributes of a giant fish, four to nine feet long. But on closer examination, the scientists found telling anatomical traits of a transitional creature, a fish that is still a fish but has changes that anticipate the emergence of land animals — and is thus a predecessor of amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals and eventually humans.

The BBC also reported the discovery here.