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Nevertheless, 120 years later, David Raup said that the situation had not improved.<ref>"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky, and ironically, we have fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information.", Raup, David, "Conflicts between Darwin and paleontology", ''Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin'' 50(1), January 1979, p.25.</ref>

Nevertheless, 120 years later, David Raup said that the situation had not improved.<ref>"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky, and ironically, we have fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information.", Raup, David, "Conflicts between Darwin and paleontology", ''Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin'' 50(1), January 1979, p.25.</ref>

Nevertheless, evolutionists continue to make claims of transitional forms.

Nevertheless, evolutionists continue to make claims of transitional forms. One such set of claims was in the 1st March 2008 issue of ''[[New Scientist]]''<ref>Prothero, Donald, ''What Missing Link?'', ''New Scientist'', 1st March 2008.</ref>

 

The article claimed that the so-called “fishbian” sequence of fossils shows the steps by which fish crawled out of the water and onto the land during the [[Devonian]] period.

The following are some examples of such claimes.<ref>The examples are taken from New Scientist magazine of 1 March 2008, ''What Missing Link?'' by Donald Prothero, professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.</ref>

''New Scientist'' claims that fossils have been "found spanning the entire transition from the distinctly fish-like ''Eusthenopteron'' to the four-legged amphibian ''Hynerpeton''".

 

 

The so-called “fishbian” sequence of fossils supposedly shows the steps by which fish crawled out of the water and onto the land during the [[Devonian]] period. ''[[New Scientist]]'' claims that fossils have been "found spanning the entire transition from the distinctly fish-like ''Eusthenopteron'' to the four-legged amphibian ''Hynerpeton''".

However, the accompanying "family tree" showing a mere eight fossils in this sequence does not show ''any'' of them as being intermediate to any others, but all being on separate branches.

However, the accompanying "family tree" showing a mere eight fossils in this sequence does not show ''any'' of them as being intermediate to any others, but all being on separate branches.

Nevertheless, ''New Scientist'' claims that the "fossil record of the fish-to-amphibian transition is now among the best documented of all"!

Nevertheless, ''New Scientist'' claims that the "fossil record of the fish-to-amphibian transition is now among the best documented of all"!

== Claims of a lack of transitional forms ==

== Claims of a lack of transitional forms ==