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raising problems needing to be resolved. In that case one cannot refrain
from asking yet again: why, yes why, did we leave the water? The more
one ponders this, the less logical this evolutionary step appears, and what
happened seems to be an irresoluble puzzle. 227
Robert L. Carroll is the author of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Evolution:
We have no intermediate fossils between rhipidistian fish and early am-
phibians. 228
Unfortunately, not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor
is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles. The absence of such an-
cestral forms leaves many problems of the amphibian-reptilian transition
unanswered. 229
Edwin H. Colbert is an authority on paleontology and curator at
the American Museum of Natural History, and M. Morales is the author
of Evolution of the Vertebrates:
There is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibians combining the charac-
teristics that would be expected in a single common ancestor. The oldest
known frogs, salamanders, and caecilians are very similar to their living
descendants. 230

From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The origin of this highly successful order is obscured by the lack of early
fossils, although turtles leave more and better fossil remains than do oth-
er vertebrates... Intermediates between turtles and cotylosaurs... reptiles
from which turtles [supposedly] sprang, are entirely lacking. 231
Lewis L. Carroll is an evolutionist paleontologist and author of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution:

Unfortunately, not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor
is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles. The absence of such an-
cestral forms leaves many problems of the amphibian-reptilian transition
unanswered. 232
Robert L. Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist and professor of bi-
ology at McGill University:
We have no intermediate fossils between rhipidistian fish and early am-
phibians. 233