A transitional fossil is a fossil that would show one species 'in change' to another. For example: A fish changing into a lion. In order to show proof of this change there would have to be a fossil that had a fish growing legs, getting fur, becoming much larger, ect.
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Get this through your thick skull; If evolution is a fact (and it is ), every species that exists, ever existed, or ever will exist, is a transitional species; transitional between what it was and what it may become if evolutionary forces keep working on it.
"a fish growing legs"
Got that one.
When fins became limbs
The transition between fishes and limbed vertebrates, or tetrapods, occurred over 370 million years ago and required changes to virtually the entire body. Sensational fossil finds, and reinterpretations of old ones, have radically altered thinking on this topic in the past 20 years. But the transition itself the very point where fishes became tetrapods remains obscure. What fossils there are tend to be incomplete or badly preserved. All that changes with the discovery of remarkable new fossils from the late Devonian of Canada of a near-complete transitional form preserved in the round. It's a fish with fins, but fins that flexed and extended like arms and hands. It has tetrapod-like ribs, a mobile neck and wrist. The impact of this discovery will be felt far and wide in evolutionary biology. On the cover, the fossil as found emerges from under a log as it might have in life in a shallow-water habitat.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/edsumm/e060406-01.html
No, a transitional form would be like us; intermediaries between a Great Ape variety with five toes and a future Great Ape variety that have only four toes.
Check out the skeleton of a whale; it will have a hip-bone, a remnant of the dog-like species that returned to sea a few million years ago.
Your first sentence is correct. Then it goes quickly into an Uneducated Imbecile-abyss.
A fish growing legs? Ever hear about the Tiktaalik?image
If you think that a fish ought to change into a lion, then you're hopelessly deluded...
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