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| Title: | Familiar Fossils-Tiktaalik:Tetrapod Testimony |
| Issue Date: | Feb-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | IMAGINE a creature that looks like acrocodile with a neck but which also hasgills like a fish! The stuff of nightmares,did you say? But it is just Tiktaalik roseae – a fish-like fossil that was introduced to theworld on April 2006 by a team of researchers led by NeilShubin, Edward Daeschler and Farish Jenkins, whouncovered this bizarre specimen. It has been hailed asbeing the species that blurs the boundary between fishand the four-legged tetrapods. |
| Page(s): | 53 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.48(02) [February 2011]
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