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Home > World Heritage Sites > Canada's Existing World Heritage Sites > Miguasha Park > A sarcopterygian fish showing many comparable characteristics of the first tetrapods. It's one of the most studied fossils on the planet which, historically, permitted an understanding of the transition from aquatic vertebrates to terrestrial vertebratesA sarcopterygian fish showing many comparable characteristics of the first tetrapods. It's one of the most studied fossils on the planet which, historically, permitted an understanding of the transition from aquatic vertebrates to terrestrial vertebrates

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Picture of a fossilized fern: the Archaeopteris halliana.
A plant from the progymnospermopsida group which were the trees that made up the planet's first forests.
© Marius Arsenault

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