Kim Handle, a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science writes: “Often laughed at here at the NY Hall of Science, it was delightful to stumble upon the Science Tattoos blog on the Loom. Thank you! Here’s my Pikaia, vertebrate fossil from the Burgess Shale.”
Carl: Here’s another Pikaia tattoo, and more information from the Smithsonian Instution on this early forerunner of fish (and us).
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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September 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Vertebrate? Nah. Chordate? Almost certainly.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
…and the Smithsonian site agrees explicitly.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Chordate is synonymous with vertebrate, Walcott would agree,
March 11th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
and last time I checked a lot of his analysis was being reanalyzed.