Natural History Wanderings

The Conversation writes about species of  fish evolved to walking

Walking independently evolved several times in fish, making it an example of evolutionary convergence (similar traits that evolve independently, like wings in bats and birds). The evolution of walking in fish is rare though. There are more than 30,000 species of fish as we know them today (not in the evolutionary sense), of which only a handful can “walk”.

Read article at  How fish evolved to walk – and in one case, turned into humans