Comments on: Walking Towards Land

By: The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:54:59 +0000

[...] time in color. The picture here is one of the pieces he’s done for the book: a portrait of Tiktaalik, an ancient fish with feet-like [...]

By: The Shoulder Bone’s Connected to the Ear Bone… | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:27 +0000

[...] old fish with a lot of tetrapod features, such as neck and a very leg-like fin. (See this Loom post on Tiktaalik for details.) Tiktaalik’s discoverers first published a description of the beast [...]

By: Word Salad on Clashing Culture | Tangled Up in Blue Guy

Word Salad on Clashing Culture | Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:31:24 +0000

[...] of our ancestors from the water to land, known as Tiktaalik. I’ve written about Tiktaalik here, and you can get more details from the book Your Inner Fish, written by Neil Shubin, one of [...]

By: Missing The Wrist | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Missing The Wrist | The Loom | Discover Magazine — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:10:10 +0000

By: Dawn of the Picasso Fish | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Dawn of the Picasso Fish | The Loom | Discover Magazine — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:00:56 +0000

[...] and Heteronectes now join the transitional fossil hall of fame, along with a fish with limbs, Tiktaalik, and the limbed cousin of whales, Indohyus. They’re also a reminder that the argument, [...]

By: Emily Sommer

Emily Sommer — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:14:06 +0000

Wow, thats awesome. I had read about this somewhat in El Pais, but didn´t quite understand it all. Everytime we find another littl bit of the puzzle of how people and animals evolved its a big deal, in my opinion… if only so as to have yet another piece of evidence in support of science =)

By: macjim

macjim — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:56:12 +0000

Nice article and useful diagram, but the intro describing Tiktaalik as a “fossil fish with fingers” looks very wrong: as you point out later Acanthostega had lots of fingers, but Tiktaalik had spiny fins. After that bad start, a very interesting article. By the way, don’t forget to look at Wikipedia’s article on Tiktaalik.

By: Ocellated

Ocellated — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:26:40 +0000

A New Discovery For Science, The Same Old Spin For Intelligent Design

I imagine by now you heard of the new transitionary fossil reported from the artic circle, dubbed Tiktaalik roseae. (It’s pronounced tic-TAH-lick, and it’s just so fun to say!) MSNBC has the layman’s report, while Pharyngula and The L…

By: dolphin

dolphin — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:55:31 +0000

"At the Water's Edge" is really a great book and anyone who read it will be understand the importance of Tiktaalik. However, I'm deeply dismayed because of the ignorance the creationists show in Nature's newsblog. I guess the simple fact that they are going berserk shows how important this discovery is.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:47:48 +0000

I think we should always be excited by any find like Tiktaalik. It is so unlikely that any particular organism should be fossilized to pass its story down to us across hundreds of millions of years that we should never lose the excitement.

Carl: I read At Water’s Edge last year and it was great. It wasn’t just a compendium of information, but a nested set of stories, one being that of the animals themselves and the other that of their discoverers. You conveyed the excitement of our emerging knowledge of the two great transitions of tetrapods and whales and it only heightens it to know that the stories aren’t yet over.