<p><strong>Did you know that humans are a type of lobe-finned fish!? </strong></p><p>Turns out our story begins 400 million years ago, when some very special fishies began making the move from sea to land, and we want to talk about it!! Dr Alice Clement heads up the Early Vertebrate Evolution Lab at Flinders University and has dedicated her career to understanding this history of life on Earth ... how the evolution of fish is the story of our own beginnings, too.</p><p>Alice joins us in the studio for a conversation about her first fieldwork at the GoGo Formation in the Kimberley - one of the most extraordinary fossil sites in the world - to the moment she split open a limestone nodule and found a beautifully preserved fish inside (now on display at Melbourne Museum!). Alice brings the joy of discovery into every corner of this fun episode. One of our favourite moments was when she walked us through her favourite fossil - an Elpistostege - a predatory fishapod from a famous site in Quebec that Alice then helped image using high-powered X-rays. The x-rays revealed finger bones, hidden inside a fish's fin, that are anatomically equivalent to your own. How good!</p><p>And we get the full story of Materpiscis, the pregnant fish with a fossilised embryo and umbilical cord still intact, whose species name is Attenborough (yes, the Sir David...). Alice is a wonderful guest, and this won't be the last time you hear her on Wonder.</p><p>Thanks to the <a href="https://www.gsa.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Geological Society of Australia</a> for making this episode of Wonder possible!</p><p><br /></p><p>Find us at www.thegeoco.com.au</p><p>Instagram &amp; TikTok: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thegeoco/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@thegeoco</a></p><p>Sign up for GeoCo News on Substack: <a href="thegeoco.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">thegeoco.substack.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>GeoCo comes to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.</p>