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The newfound species, dubbed Puijila darwini, might be the long-sought missing link in the evolution of pinnipeds - a group that includes modern seals, sea lions and walruses - explaining how the animal group moved from land-dwellers with legs to the semi-aquatic, flippered swimmers around today.
AOL News 2009
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Transitional-stage fossils such as Puijila are always especially significant to scientists because they provide confirmation of the process of evolution.
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There is a website all about Puijila (in English, French, and Inuktitut) where you can find all kinds of images … and you can also find out how to pronounce "Puijila", something we're all going to have to practice.
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And, while I'm in a paleo 'sort of mood, here's a marvelous thing: Puijila darwini, a semi-aquatic cousin of living seals, sea lions, and walruses.
My Birth Dinosaur! greygirlbeast 2009
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Puijila neatly straddles the gap between land and water in the ancestry of pinnipeds.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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A single skeleton, about 65 per cent complete, Puijila darwini dates from the early Miocene epoch about 20 million years ago.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Puijila neatly straddles the gap between land and water in the ancestry of pinnipeds.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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A single skeleton, about 65 per cent complete, Puijila darwini dates from the early Miocene epoch about 20 million years ago.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The team named the animal Puijila darwini -- combining the Inuit word for "young sea mammal" with darwini for Darwin, the scientist who published revolutionary theories in biological evolution 150 years ago.
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They named it Puijila darwini, a combination of the Inuktitut word for young sea mammal and a tribute to Charles Darwin, the visionary scientist who predicted the existence of such a creature in his seminal book about evolution.
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