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Fossil from Ellesmere Island offers fish tetrapod link
Scientists report Tiktaalik a 375 million year old fossil from Ellesmere Island shows a lobe fin with a functioning shoulder elbow and wrist and a flat alligatorlike head and ribcage enabling possible support on land. The find fills a long gap between fish and tetrapods and supports the Devonian transition to terrestrial vertebrates.
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Hane Sues
National Museum of Natural History
Uni
Ellesmere Island
North Pole
Shubin
Nature
Darschiér
Tiktaalik
Hans- Peter Schultze
Kansas University