Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik
Clip: Episode 1 | 4m 38s
Neil Shubin recounts the discovery of an iconic fish fossil in the Canadian Arctic.
The discovery of a 375-million-year-old fish, Tiktaalik, sheds light on a major transition in the history of life: the movement of vertebrates onto land. Paleontologist and anatomist Neil Shubin describes his team's discovery of that fossil.
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Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils: Tiktaalik
Clip: Episode 1 | 4m 38s
The discovery of a 375-million-year-old fish, Tiktaalik, sheds light on a major transition in the history of life: the movement of vertebrates onto land. Paleontologist and anatomist Neil Shubin describes his team's discovery of that fossil.
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