Tetrapods Came from the Ocean: Difference between revisions

This trope is a fish coming onto land on a beach from a large mass of water, presumably from the ocean. This portraying evolution, or a gag based on evolution, incorrectly. Tetrapods probably came from ''fresh water'' <ref>more specifically the most likely candidate, at least for now, is Tiktaalik, which is Inuktitut for “Burbot” or “large fresh water fish”. Tiktaalik probably lived in a swamp.</ref> Hence why amphibians, the intermediate evolutionary step between other tetrapods and fishTiktaalik, live in fresh water, for at least part of their life cycle. Of course this trope may have actually been the [[Science Marches On|scientific view, but it's not anymore]] (if so, if someone could give a date that would be great).