Which Fish Did We Evolve From?

Today's oceans are full of fish with fins that couldn't evolve into limbs like ours. So, who are our ancestors and where did they go?

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Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started:
Lobe-finned Fishes, Ray-Finned fishes, Panderichthys, Late Devonian

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Credits (and Twitter handles):
Script Writer: Emily Elert (@eelert)
Script Editor: Peter Reich
Video Illustrator: Omkar Bhagat (@TheCuriousEnggr)
Video Director: Emily Elert (@eelert)
With Contributions From: Alex Reich (@alexhreich), Ever Salazar (@eversalazar) and Henry Reich (@minutephysics)
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

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References:

Clack, Jennifer. (2016). Personal Communication.

Merck, John. GEOL 431 Vertebrate Paleobiology Lecture Notes, University of Maryland. Retrieved from https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol...

McGhee, G. R. (2013). When the invasion of land failed: The legacy of the Devonian extinctions. Columbia University Press.

Sallan, L. C., & Coates, M. I. (2010). End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(22), 10131-10135. Retrieved from http://www.pnas.org/content/107/22/10...