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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[…] Here’s an article (Columbus Dispatch => Discovery of Evolutionary Link Was a Scientific Inevitiability) that not only dismisses the significance of the recent discovery of Tiktaalik Roseae but makes me feel good about it at the same time. […]