First Steps – Life on Earth

Scientists find a missing link between fish and land animals

Gosh, another good day in paleontology.

375-380 million years ago, this fellow took the first steps on land…

Named Tiktaalik Roseae after an Inuit word for “large freshwater fish” he won’t have too many children named after him, but he sure did a favor for all of us land-dwellers.

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