What we saw was a real mosaic between characteristics of fish and those previously thought to be only in land animals. The fossil was showing us how creatures were assembled over time to live on land.
"Neil Shubin" is an United States/American paleontology/paleontologist, evolutionary biology/evolutionary biologist and popular science writer of Russian descent. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Professor on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago along with being the Provost of the Field Museum of Natural History. He is well known for his discovery of Tiktaalik roseae.
More Neil Shubin on Wikipedia.It shows us the stages by which land-living animals were constructed.
It is a fish that shows a surprising combination of characteristics of land-living animals.
Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.
The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.
It represents the transition from water to land - the part of history that includes ourselves. When we talk about the fish's wrist, we're talking about the origin of parts of our own wrist.
We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.
We did a few high fives when we uncovered the fossil, but there's only so much celebrating you can do in the Arctic.
Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support itself on the ground.
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