The v-shaped bone turned out to be the lower jaw of a fish, but not any fish Neil Shubin had ever seen. The University of Chicago paleontologist had been chipping his way through an ancient rock ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae--the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago--are revealing how this major ...

The internal skull structure of a creature that bridges the gap between fishes and the first land-dwelling animals has been reconstructed. The creature, dubbed Tiktaalik roseae — or, to be less formal ...

A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged "fishapod" that first made the transition from water to land 375 million years ago. Most ...

If you haven’t found your inner child yet maybe you ought to give up and seek your inner fish. Dr. Neil Shubin has. The Wellfeet resident and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago ...

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People who doubt the truth of Darwinian evolution love to claim that there are no transitional fossils—no remains of ancient creatures that have the characteristics of two different kinds of organism, ...

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Interesting in its own right, this also shakes up the debate about who was the first. Prior classification had relied only on the fossils of mature Ichthyostega, which, when compared to Acanthostega, ...

Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae--the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago--are revealing how this major evolutionary ...

A new study describes a fossil species that closely resembles the four-legged fishapod Tiktaalik but has features that made it more suited to life in the water than its adventurous cousin. A meme has ...