Finally a transitional fossil is found between sea to land. It has been named Tiktaalik roseae at the suggestion of Canada's Nunavut Territory
natives. It is a fish but shows changes that will bring about the emergence of amphibians and other land animals.
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Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out
of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull, a neck, ribs, and parts of the limbs that are
similar to four-legged animals known as tetrapods, as well as fishlike features such as a primitive jaw, fins, and scales.
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Cool. Really, a new fossil, a new animal, brings more of a light to our history of life. The Earth has many of these and we got lucky and found
one. Being found on Ellesmere Island makes me think of something, that is where they found transitional Mammoths, or Mini Mammoths as they are more
commonly known as since they are much smaller versions of Mammoths that came around the end of the last Ice Age. WHat other treasure does Ellesmere
Island hold?
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[edit on 10-4-2006 by asala]
"It kind of like, when on land, and died of having no respiratory
organs..." 
