Are there any real pictures of bones that are transitional fossils?

Question

For instance where did the dog evolve from? Don't say a fish. I want to see a picture of an animal that walk on four legs that resembles a dog, and not a cat eithier.

Answer 1

I hate to be mean, but you might want to do your own work- seriously, do some internet archeology of your own and fire up google. For an exhaustive (and frankly boring) list of transitional fossils (without pictures, I'm dissapointed too), talkorigins delvers here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-tran...

For examples of pictures, they are a little bit difficult to come by but they are out there. Example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur... shows a legged snake

For a fish growing legs, look here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

For the evolution of the human skull, there are some pictures with plenty of explination here: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/...

The problem with trying to understand transitional fossils is that they are very difficult to interpret without a background in science. You won't just see some legs popping out of a fish and- presto- you have a land animal. Also keep in mind that evolution at times predicts that there will be NO transitional fossils- there have been several instances of extremely quick evolution due to punctuated equilibrium- basically, when an ecosystem is disrupted and a niche is unfilled, evolution can happen extremely quickly, in which case fossils may not be left. Fossilization is an extremely rare process, and by no means does evolution rely on the existence of these transitional fossils alone.

Answer 2

Dogs did not technically 'evolve' - they were not created through the process of natural selection like wild animals, but were selectively bred by humans from the grey wolf. If you want to see a picture of an animal that walks on four legs and resembles a dog, here:

http://jon-atkinson.com/Large%20Images/L...

Of course, if you go back far enough in time the grey wolf DID evolve from a fish, but it wasn't as though one day it was a fish and the next it was a wolf. Over millions of years, some fish evolved into amphibians, and some of those amphibians into reptiles, some of those reptiles into mammals, and some of those mammals into wolves. There are literally thousands of transitional fossils out there. You have only to Google it to see them for yourself.