Tiktaalik News, fossil skull analyzed, Tiktaalik decreed inventor of the neck…

Posted on | October 16, 2008 | No Comments

…for land animals, at least.

Philly’s favorite missing link (well, now that Kruk’s retired), Tiktaalik roseae is in the news. Tiktaalik was discovered during an exhibition by the Academy of Natural Science’s Ted Daeschler. Their recent findings — an analysis of the internal structures of its head — demonstrate some of the evolutionary “fixes” Tiktaalik employed to breathe on dry land.

Full story at Wired science.

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