Fossil of Tiktaalin, an extinct fish. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons ...

A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did come out of the sea, we aren’t doing just fine. By Sabrina Imbler It may not be the worst of times, but it is certainly not ...

Before the evolution of legs from fins, the axial skeleton - including the bones of the head, neck, back and ribs - was already going through changes that would eventually help our ancestors support ...

Tiktaalik pelves were still clearly fish-like, with primitive features such as an undivided skeletal configuration, as opposed to the three-part pelvic girdle of early tetrapods. However, the expanded ...

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Roger Smith, left, and Neil Shubin examine a fossil. Photo courtesy PBS We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian ichthys symbol, or Jesus fish. Unlike the Christian symbol, ...

You may have come across a meme showing an ancient fish known as Tiktaalik. It shows the green, eel-like creature crawling out of the sea about 375 million years ago — about the time that scientists ...

Tiktaalik roseae had fish-like fins, a flattened skull (similar to a crocodile), and is thought to have lived in shallow water, using its fins to prop itself up ...

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 evolution ...

A crucial fossil that shows how animals crawled out from the water, evolving from fish into land-loving animals, has been found in Canada. “Tetrapods did not so much conquer the land, as escape from ...

The relationship of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods) to lobe-finned fish (sarcopterygians) is well established, but the origin of major tetrapod features has remained obscure for lack of fossils that ...