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TIKTAALIK, TETRAPODS AND MIGUASHA

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Author: FossilHuntress
Date: 2025-02-20 00:21:00
Blog: ARCHEA
URL: https://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2025/01/tiktaalik-tetrapods-and-miguasha.html

Summary:

Elpistostege watsoniIn the late 1930s, our understanding of the transition of fish to tetrapods — and the eventual jump to modern vertebrates — took an unexpected leap forward. The evolutionary a'ha came from a single partial fossil skull found on the shores of a riverbank in Eastern Canada. Meet the Stegocephalian, Elpistostege watsoni, an extinct genus of finned tetrapodomorphs that

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