Bringing Tiktaalik Home

It's a long way from a quarry in the Canadian Arctic to fossil labs in Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Follow the Shubin HeadCam as we take you back to experience the trip that brought Tiktaalik home.

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[standup4REALscience]

That was a 375 million year journey, summarized in 3 minutes!

[AA32m7io1]

@gamesbok

"You seem to have marks in some mud..."

How do footprints survive long periods of time to be fossilized under uniformitarian conditions?

"The only reference to Jenny Clark's remarks I can find are on creationist web sites"

You do know how to use Google, right? See "Ancient Four-Legged Beasts Leave Their Mark" (ScienceNOW, Jan. 6, 2010)

BTW, the article also says the area was well preserved "with visible cracks from drying mud and the impressions of raindrops." Rain?

[gamesbok]

@AA32m7io1 Certainly Cladistic interpritation is entirely a mechanical process done by computer these days.

The only reference to Jenny Clark's remarks I can find are on creationist web sites, and with their record of dishonesty and quote mining I would be reluctant to comment.

Elpistostegalia cover the whole Devonian with a many examples of many species and a coherent story. You seem to have marks in some mud and it's unclear even if the marks were made above water.

[AA32m7io1]

@gamesbok 1 of 2

"based on evolutionary interpritation of the strata?"

Interpretation is such a subjective term, isn't it?

As Jennifer Clack of the University of Cambridge said, "We thought we'd pinned down the origin of limbed tetrapods. We have to RETHINK the whole thing."