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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution

The Joy of x

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The Early Species of the Amazon

Rocks in Pennsylvania were 365 million years old, formed in ancient delta systems. They would actually detonate and create cliffs that they removed to make roads. The state looked like the Amazon. And we started finding these fossils. We found early tetrapods. We found lots of lobe fin fish. Fish are closely related to these tetrapod.

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