Skull analysis of Qingmendous offers insight into creatures between pre-lobed fish and tetrapods

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered new characteristics of Qingmendous, an Onychodont that lived during the time between fish without lobed fins and tetrapods. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes their study of the fish and discuss its possible place in the evolutionary history of the creatures that eventually made their way onto land.