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2024-01-24 19:41:12

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doing research for the devonian video (which will be out in like a month) and i had remembered learning about how incredible the actual STORY of finding tiktaalik was in my paleontology class. i just came across this video, one of the discoverers of Tiktaalik, Neil Shubin, explaining the whole story. i don't think i'll be mentioning it much in the video for the sake of keeping each section concise, but honestly might be worth making a separate video dedicated to Tiktaalik. hopefully i could get in contact with Neil too because his energy and passion for this discovery is amazing. sorry if this is hard to read, my brain is going a mile a minute and i am excited hahaha. lmk what you think of the video!

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Neil Shubin (U. Chicago): Finding Tiktaalik, the Fossil Link Between Fish and Land Animals

https://www.ibiology.org/evolution/tiktaalik/ Ever since he was a graduate student, Neil Shubin has been obsessed with finding fossils of the creature that marked the transition from fish to land dwelling animals. He explains how he scoured maps to find rocks of the right age and type that were accessible at the earth’s surface. This led him to the Canadian arctic where, in 2004, Shubin and his colleagues found Tiktaalik, a fossil of a creature with features found in both fish and tetrapods. Tiktaalik was the link between fish and land animals. Speaker Biography: Dr. Neil Shubin is an author and Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. Shubin’s research focuses on understanding the evolutionary origins of new anatomical features such as limbs. Shubin is well known for his discovery of Tiktaalik roseae,the 375 million year old fossil link between fish and tetrapods. Shubin is an elected member of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.