What are Transitional Fossils?

Transitional fossils are biological fossils that retain both the life forms of their ancestors and their evolved offspring.

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Transitional fossils are biological fossils that retain both the life forms of their ancestors and their evolved offspring.

Especially when the evolved creatures are completely different from their ancestors, the significance of transitional fossils in scientific research becomes even more significant. This fossil implies that human beings just forcibly split a complete continuum with what they consider to be a biological plan. Because of the incompleteness of the fossil itself, it is usually impossible to judge how close a divergent fossil is to the divergence point of evolution. Therefore, although transitional fossil fields have been studied as models of their ancestors, it cannot be assumed that they are direct ancestors of future generations.