Fossilized remains of Acanthostega, a primitive fish, reveal that even though the animal had rudimentary limbs, it could not walk on land.

棘螈是一种原始鱼类，它的化石遗迹显示，尽管棘螈有基本的四肢，但它却不能在陆地上行走。

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A fish would never be happy living on land, because it was made for water. An eagle could never feel satisfied if it wasn't allowed to fly.

鱼绝不会喜欢住在陆地上，因为他是为水中生活而被造的，你若不许鹰展翅飞翔，他必然无法满足。

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In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. The weather is fair, the land is fertile and the ocean is rich with fish.

在遥远的南海有一群岛屿，这里天气不错，土地肥沃，海里尽是鱼儿。

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Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.

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The rice was mainly imported from nearby Hunan, a province that is traditionally known as the "land of fish and rice, " thanks to its bountiful produce.

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But what has not been clear before is whether the common ancestor was, like the sea cow, aquatic and therefore whether elephants have undergone a tortuous evolutionary journey from water to land (when their remote ancestors changed from fish to amphibians) then back to water again, before finally returning to the land.

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