Tiktaalik’s ancient cousin decided life was better in the water This paddle-finned fish may have returned to swimming in search of tasty meat. Kate Baggaley Jul 21, 2022 5:00 PM EDT ...

Shubin was part of the team who discovered Tiktaalik during a 2004 expedition in the Canadian Arctic. Qikiqtania was found on the same trip, but the fossil went mostly unstudied while the team ...

You’ve met the front of Tiktaalik roseae, the fish-like creature that fills an important gap between fish and four-legged, land-based animals. Now, the hindquarters of the 375-million-year-old ...

Fossils of Tiktaalik, which lived some 375 million years ago and is believed to be the first fish that walked on land, had more robust hindquarters than previously known.

The discovery of new fossil materials from the ancient fish species Tiktaalik roseae has revealed a key link in the evolution of hind limbs. The newly described, well-preserved pelves and partial ...

Tiktaalik: music to my ears. Tiktaalik is the lilting name of a newly discovered fossil fish with fingers. It lived 380 million years ago in the northern reaches of Canada, back when the northern ...

The discovery of well-preserved pelves and a partial pelvic fin from Tiktaalik roseae, a 375 million-year-old transitional species between fish and the first legged animals, reveals that the ...

New clues to the origin of our ears were published today in the journal Nature. They come from a fossil known as Tiktaalik, a 370-million-year old fish with a lot of tetrapod features, such as ...

Tiktaalik-roseaeCourtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences Its discovery in the Canadian arctic several years ago was an exciting find for paleontologists, says Jason Downs at the Academy of Natural ...

Co-author Dr Tom Stewart said: “ Tiktaalik is often treated as a transitional animal because it’s easy to see the stepwise pattern of changes from life in the water to life on land.

Tiktaalik's hyomandibula is smaller and in a different position, perhaps because the animal was living in shallow water and relying less on its gills to breathe. In mammals, which don't need gills ...

But Qikiqtania was much smaller; while Tiktaalik could grow to a whopping 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, Qikiqtania appears to have maxed out around 30 inches (76 centimeters).