The Missing Link
BBC2 9.00pm Thursday 1st February 2001

Weblinks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1050000/1050851.stm
BBC News Online coverage of Per Ahlberg's findings and recent discoveries of a South African colony of coelacanth 'livng fossil' fish.

www.nhm.ac.uk/
The Natural History Museum, London. Search for more information on everything from Devonian fish and tetrapods to the coelacanth.

www.amnh.org/enews/verteb/v28.html
Leading the Way to Land. A superb introduction to Acanthostega by the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.

www.mdgekko.com/devonian/intro.html
The Devonian Times, a fantastic site from the Pennsylvanian Red Hill team dedicated to 'The Age of Fishes' and the first tetrapods. It forms part of the paleo-ring, a collection of websites devoted to paleontology.

www.dinofish.com
Dinofish, an encyclopaedic site on everything you ever wanted to know about the coelacanth.

www.icr.org/index.html
Institute for Creation Research


Books:

A Fish Caught in Time
by Samantha Weinberg

At The Water's Edge: fish with fingers, whales with legs and how life came ashore but then went back to sea
by Carl Zimmer

Eight Little Piggies: reflections in natural history
by Stephen Jay Gould

In Search of Deep Time: beyond the fossil record to a new history of life
by Henry Gee

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