October 15, 2008

Tiktaalik Resurfaces

In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that...

In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that is providing “striking evidence of the intermediate steps by which some marine vertebrates evolved into animals that walked on land.” Paleontologist Neil Shubin, Ph.D. ’87, of the University of Chicago, led the expedition that found several partial skeletons of the fish in 2004.

Read the Times article here. Read more about Tiktaalik, and Shubin and his recent book, Your Inner Fish, in this magazine’s article “Fishing for Answers.”

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