Tiktaalik (Your Inner Fish)

[funkateer972]

a song so sweet a big thank you by natural museum history of paris

[IIIRodrigoVegaIII]

I think of this song as a loving memorial tribute to an adorable creature. It's as if just by taking pictures of a model in our current world, it got acknowledged by the world it created through it's descendants and could see it, so to rest a little bit more peacefully. Even hundreds of millions of years after it's death, having been found, appreciated and loved, tiktaalik is a little more alive than the other rocks.

[actionjackson864]

tiktaalik is the man

[tamara2623]

it will be so cool if they do exist today :D they was so cute :)

[PikminDS]

Does anyone have any idea where I could buy a Tiktaalik model like that? That would be great to have.

[jibo12345]

watched this in my ecology and evolution class,lol

[mejc2]

too bad tetra pods formed 18 million years before Tiktaalik.

[ThatMermaidGirl]

I'll never forget my 7th grade science teacher for showing us this. I LOVE IT!

[12GaugeSteel]

That was pretty good, but I still like the metallica cover more...

FRAN-TIK, TIK, TIK, TIK, TIK, TAA-LIK

[IndianaJ25]

This is hilarious!

[xenethe]

This is so cute!

[psb1964]

Tiktaalik: The Musical!

[SonicSanctuary]

lol hes a silly little guy isnt he :3

[omegaheartless]

jesus that thing is awesome!! I want one of those things!

[Humberto4790]

Does it bite?

[grfield1]

Whatever else we might say about Tiktaalik, it is a fish. Like nearly all bony fishes, these fish have small pelvic fins, retain fin rays in their paired appendages and have well-developed gills—all consistent with an entirely aquatic life style.

[headybrew]

Ha! Thanks for this! I couldn't help but smile. LOL when I saw him in the revolving door. Don't know why, but that struck me as funny.

Somehow this made me a little melancholy that tiktaalik is no longer around. He sure looked cute though. Wonder if he'd make a good pet?

[ElGorkodos]

Tiiktalik is sooooo cute , i would like to have one as a pet .

[Allosaurus333]

@ElGorkodos

It would bite ur hand off XD

[SkydanceShinigami]

This just made my life SO much better. :3

[Lol0918]

@SkydanceShinigami i kno right!!

[ahamil77]

this is the best thing i have ever seen

[thrashitupX]

isn't absolutly adorable? i wish i could have one as a pet

[ElGorkodos]

@thrashitupX

Ahahahahah , i was about to say the same thing !

[thrashitupX]

wow... amazingly catchy! someone got an A on this project!

[2chocoholics]

haha mi bio teacher showed us dis vid in class

[PenultimateBadass]

Cutest.  Fishapod. Ever.

[methfeir2001]

Awesome:)

[FiverBeyond]

I love it!

I'm a huge TixTaalik fan, if for nothing else than that it looks like it's always smiling.

As if to say "See creationists? I was here all the time!"

[THErightchoice41]

If this was true there would need to be a crotiktaalikduck.

[kurgens]

wow pals, this is just so funny and great ! Didn´t know Tiktaalik had already its own tune; who will be next?? Ichthyostega?? Eusthenopteron? the new one from Poland??

Dude, can u send me an MP3 from this please???

5/5!

[theatomiclightbulb]

I am a big fan of Tiktaalik, and I hope that University of Pennsylvania makes Tiktaalik stuffed animals available in its gift shop in the near future.

[thrashitupX]

u chicago would be the more likely place, as that is where Neil Shubin is asociated with.

[emancoy]

when will they sell tiktaalik stuff toys?

[RasmusKjaerg]

Genius!! Love it!:)

[axorozzas]

All I can say is-you are truly great people.

Who says evolution can't be fun?

[colorvibrante]

ahaha! yay bio nerdiness!

[brandizzi2]

O man, that is very good! Thank you, guys!

[supershyone1]

hahaha this is so funny. i love it!

[olvidoae]

LOL!!! Crazy cool video and tune--thanks!

[MeQlow]

:))) Amaaazing!!! I love it :) :)

[tastew01]

Man, I want that t-shirt at 2:17.

[spartakiad]

AMAZING! Thank you folks~

[SporeFanCreator]

Can you donload this on itunes that would be funny

[pennchas]

Weeeelll, actually you can. ;) Search for "Tiktaalik" and The Indoorfins video ought to be the first result!

[FreePlay]

This is awesomely cute :)

[warlock242]

Nice one

[Venaloid]

Man I love nerd songs!

[MrEwolucjonista]

haha I love it !

[peterdelane]

I wonder if Shubin likes fishsticks? ;)

[Knr911]

Tiktaalik FTW :)

[Ledannus]

God creates Tiktaalik,

God destroys Tiktaalik,

God creates man

Man discovers Tiktaalik

Tiktaalik destroys God

Ian Malcolm

[Venaloid]

Lol

[MulcheArcade]

wow you win ... you just win

[jblanco88HD]

OMG

esto estoy viendo en zoologia...y nunca me imagine que tenia su propia cancion :D

[eater0fput0]

The song is so cute and the Tiktaalik himself is adorable too.

[Albukhshi]

indeed.

the sing now makes me want to have a pet tiktaalik. only problem is that its extinct :(

[emancoy]

@Albukhshi

the closest thing is a pet newt or salamander

[AtomicMike85]

and who says scientists don't have fun?

[articulett]

Showed this to my freshman science students. Awesome goodness!

[biscoito1r]

Great book

[Tabascho]

I will name my firstborn tiktaalik

[wcwashington]

im about to start reading your inner fish i just picked it up the other day

[orthon360]

people hiccup cuz somewhere down the line fish and people were related....and hiccups r just a little reminder of our long gone fish gills where they would've gasped for water. i heard something like that

[JOLLYCHAPSTICK]

Incredible. it looks just like me

[jenny666yo]

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen! I absolutely love it.

[aflute0509]

Oh man, that was great! :)

[bglevine11]

Neil Shubin is my uncle!!!!! I swear... He loves this song!!!! So do I !!!!!!!!!

Btw- lovetoeatallthefood is kinda right but there is about a 50/50 chance it actually did walk on land...

[auntsuzie]

Yeah... those of us at Penn who invited Neil to speak on "Your Inner Fish" for the freshman Penn Reading Project and who commissioned the song... love Neil and Tik too!

[Albukhshi]

send him my complements!

[flosse89]

i love this tiktaalik, wrote an essay about it the other day xD

[Nades129]

going to buy this book after im done with meh others

[BigG99]

how do we know that he actually walked on land?

[ozzie2005]

Now if we could get man to evolve the world would be a much better place. Imagine!

Regards from a proud tetrapod.

[bravetoday]

The Tiktaalik Roseae is another desperate attempt to push it as a transitional fossil. Tikaalik is said to be 9 ft. long. It would weigh hundreds of pounds and it's fins do not have skeletal connection to the rest of it's body. Tiktaaliks fin was not connected to the main skeleton, so it could not have supported its weight on land. Missing Link? - wrong.

[spoonlamp]

What an excellent point. In one swell foop you have completely disproved evolution! :P

[lovetoeatallthefood]

If you're done tilting at windmills, it might interest you to know that even the scientists who discovered the fossil don't claim that it walked on land. Rather, it's thought that Tiktaalik used its fore-fins to anchor itself to the riverbed in fast-moving water.

So congratulations on disproving a claim that no one has made.

[ProcInc]

"Tikaalik is said to be 9 ft. long"

No it isn't, another Devonian fish was but not Tiktaalik. And the fins actually are attatched to the body (with a shoulder no les!)

[formless777]

Tetrapod pride !

[thruthem]

That's awesome!

[noneofthis4322]

wierd to think we're all descended from that.

[flyingscience]

Neil needs to go back up and find a whole specimen .None have been found with the backside yet .Maybe they where all bit by a predator that was too lazy to eat the top half?

[jaimey001]

lol

[Xformat01]

This is great....I've only seen two videos of this new "species", but all I've seen is the skull....no body, legs or tails. Hmmmm. Why is that I wonder? Is this another "Piltdown" man? Another fake? Another fraud?

[emawerna]

3) less than 200 people are on this island, 4) the location of the island means that any place housing the fossils (which is unlikely to be a museum) will not be visited by people from off the island. No disrespect to the people there, but the fossils are likely to be lost or severly damaged because this is a small group of people and a delicate non-cultural artifact. It sad because unforeseen technologies might allow us to understand more about this fossils later.

[emawerna]

The fossils are going back to Ellesmere island after study, at least according to a video on youtube. This sounds like cultural sensitivity, but it is taken to such an extreme as to be absurd. 1) no one who is currently on Ellesmere island was there before 1950, 2) the people there currrently we forced to move there and stay there by the Canadian government to assure sovereignty of the island during the cold war and have no other connection with the land,

[bencubed]

Now we can all proudly say :

' I am a tetrapod! '

[fc007]

' I am a tetrapod! '

[dabaum90]

They say our "Inner fish" because we (humans and all other limbed animals) are ALL descendants from this Tiktaalik tetrapod. It is the first known species where we can see the obvious transformation from fish-like organisms to tetrapod's, or limbed organisms. So yes, we all have an "inner fish"

[wolfwing1]

Plus the whole idea behind the book by the same name is showing how so much of our body and the weird oddities are from our fish and amphibian ancestors.

[austjb]

I guess that would explain my dorsal fin, then...

[Rieven83]

It really looks like an undeveloped crocodile. A crocodile also can go into water and land. So maybe before crocodile it was this Tiktaalik.

[Rieven83]

Looks like an undeveloped crocodile.

[SirMildredPierce]

Do you have a link to the mp3 somewhere?

[paleochick]

Awesome!

[metalorg]

I super want a model of a tiktaalik like that

[GodKillerAtheist]

it looks like a deformed crock

[lugarf]

it means that we can find in tiktaalik most the anatomical features that define our tetrapod skeleton. We (and all tetropods) have fishes inside of us. :)

[CoolGuy23423]

i find myself singing this song in strange places now. very infectious chorus, and a laudable effort to popularize some science...

[allieonthemoon]

why this song reminds me of R.E.M.? isn't it the kind of thing they would sing about?

[subratabanik]

Tiktaalik is my Hero!!! :))

[MistertheSpike]

I named my guinea pig Tiktaalik.

[FuzzyDuck]

That's just too damn endearing! Very nice.

[StridentLobster]

By far the best song I've ever heard about a devonian tetrapod.

[kanfor]

So beatifull!

[mymelody955]

Where can I buy one of those! I want a plastic tetrapod too!

[dagawker]

One to the Tik?

[hellacopter24]

Tiktaalik rules

[AntiVenomFangX]

hes got the rabies!!!

[trilobite1]

Finalmente qualcosa di in telligente per divulgare le notizie :-D

[VersatileMind4Christ]

Hilarious. This is cute.

[TroodonKid2007]

Love the Tiktaalik ^_^

[dancingnature]

cute

[MexiGojira]

the part with the dog facing Tiktaalik was cute.

present and past together!

[imjfktoo]

Awesome song, great video to go along with it too! 5/5

[darkarcra]

lol, awesome video guys. really catchy...

[666luke999]

kinda cute lol

[toolismyfavband]

lol tiktaalik

[rationalCrash]

good to see my great^nth grandfather getting out and traveling.

[intelligentfalling]

Thanks for coming on land so that we could eventually build civilization and some one could make this super cool video of you, tiktaalik!4!

[lowcomedy]

Cutest extinct animal ever!

[pienipaha]

I can all ready imagine myself dancing around the University campus singing this.

[TheHatefulDead]

Tiktaalik Rocks!

(Hope all this sudden fame doesn't go to his head}

[califoniania]

That fish/amphibian is so cute! I don't know why, but watch it crawl around like that just fills me with joy and I can't help but root for the little guy. Go Tiktaalik! One day your children will look back and be proud of their inner fish!

[sockpuppetsfromhell]

This is too cute.

[freedom0f5peech]

It's blasphamy to the lord our god!

No... I'm joking... LOL!

Love it! 5 stars, favorited!

[popecoyote1st]

Outstanding! Loved Shubin's book and what a great song to celebrate Tiktaalik! Really well done!

[healthyaddict]

hahaha - cute!

[jablair51]

Great! Now I'm going to have this song stuck in my head for weeks.

[Castaa]

Awesome :D

[CousinoMacul]

Nice song!

Shubin has dropped hints in his talks that you might have gotten the hind limbs wrong in your video. We'll just have to wait and see. ;-)

[flyingscience]

Poor Tiktaalik looks like a manatee and a bad water boat accident with no back quarters .They need a new expedition to find his back legs and tail !

[herplab]

I bought one of these at the local pet store, great pet

[nick13ismine]

ummm they've been extinct for millions upon millions of years

[Davelittler1]

Well, obviously you're wrong, if they can be purchased in pet stores. I suggest you check your facts, sir or madam.

No, I'm joking. I wish there were some way to express sarcasm in text.

[magick205]

Damn it. I can't do HTML tags in here. Oh well. I just  do /sacasm to indicate end. So, what kind of leash laws they got for a pre-amphibian there?

[Albukhshi]

I dunno :P

[dimebagdarrel11]

hey doug awsome vid noah one of oscars friends

[Almejid22]

great work dudes!really nice!

i will never forgot this name: TIK TIK TIK TIKTAALIK!

[christvworld]

The CHAS staff rocks! This is totally cool.

[wapak0n3ta]

You should have added at the end  ..

No Tiktaalik's were hurt in the production of this film :)

[wapak0n3ta]

Great Vid ! Great Tune !

[elileiss]

THIS IS GREAT!!!!

[auntsuzie]

Great work by the Indoorfins: Carl creating and singing the refrain and studying the topic; Rob for his smart and funny lyrics and impassioned lead vocal; Doug for his wonderful musicianship and production work; and Sheila for keeping everyone on point and on time. Kudos to Christopher Bogs for putting this video together and I didn't do too shabby with the photography. Thanks to Neil and Kapi for sending Tik to us all the way from Chicago!