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World Service,2 mins

Why did fish move onto land?

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Fish walked out of the water and onto land around 360 million years ago. But why did they do it? Dr Matt Wilkinson, evolutionary biologist at Cambridge University in the UK, explains some of the key theories. (Image: Two Mudskippers sitting on a Branch. Credit: Getty Images)

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