Yeah, but it's still a FISH, isn't it?

So four million years of "evolution" didn't give it time to develop into a salamander.

The discovery of the new fossil means scientists can no longer make inferences about the evolution of limbs based on living coelacanths and lungfishes.

"To understand the developmental evolution of the limbs of tetrapods, we shouldn't be looking at the fins of our nearest living fish relatives — lungfishes and coelacanths — because they're far too specialized," said co-author Michael Coates, a University of Chicago biologist. [link]

Specialization - loss of information, not a GAIN.

A fish is a fish is a fish, folks. And a fish will never never never, not in a billion years, turn into a  salamander or a bird or a dog or a human.

Micro-evolution: changes within species - proven.

Macro-evolution: one species (or type) of animal changing into another - nope.

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[Dan Paden]

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The discovery of the new fossil means scientists can no longer make inferences about the evolution of limbs based on living coelacanths and lungfishes.

"Can no longer?" You mean this is what they have been doing? As authoritative scientists?

I will translate the italicized sentence into the common Redneck-ese I usually speak:

"Dangnabbit! There's another idea shot all to ----!"