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Discovering a Link Between Fish and Limbed Animals
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Discovering a Link Between Fish and Limbed Animals
Working in rocks more than 375 million years old, far above the Arctic Circle, paleontologists Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler have discovered a remarkable new fossil species.  It represents the most compelling evidence yet of an intermediate evolutionary stage between fish and early limbed animals. Jokingly called a "fishapod," the animal was part fish and part tetrapod - a name for the earliest limbed animals. From the Series:Frontier
Video Length: 3068
Date Found: February 12, 2009
Date Produced: October 31, 2007
View Count: 7
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