Fishapod sticks it to Creationists!
Fishapod sticks it to CreationistsTiktaalik roseae is a fishapod. This means that it was half fish, half tetrapod. In other words, it is a missing link. Turns out, that theory of evolution people keep talking about is looking more and more like it might be true.
A number of fossilized skeletons were recently found by scientists researching in the Canadian Arctic. The new species is estimated to be 375 million years old, and its skeletons are those of what scientists label a transitional creature.
Tiktaalik has shows early signs of the development of wrists, elbows and shoulders, along with other features found on land animals. It also has a neck, which is not characteristic of fish but practically necessary in land vertebrates. It is likely that Tiktaalik used its proto-limbs along the beds of streams, and also possible that it occasionally went onto dry land.
Tiktaalik is not the first such intermediary creature; there are other fossils that scientists have long held as evidence that life originated in the seas and migrated to dry land. This species
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