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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubclass Tetrapodomorpha — anextinct fish whichevolved to walk on land.
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Examples
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The name Tiktaalik and the general body plan reminds me of a crocodile.
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Furthermore, evolution makes plenty of testable predictions; a recent spectacular example was the discovery of the fossil fish Tiktaalik, which is a transitional life form whose general characteristics and geographical location were predicted on the basis of evolutionary theory.
Science: It’s more complicated than creationists think « Skulls in the Stars 2008
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Previous data from another ancient fish called Tiktaalik showed distal radials as well – although the quality of that specimen was poor.
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Previous data from another ancient fish called Tiktaalik showed distal radials as well – although the quality of that specimen was poor.
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Given the Inuit name Tiktaalik, the specimen neatly splits the gap between fossil fish that lived about 385 million years ago and the four-legged amphibians that came 20 million years later.
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This creature is called Tiktaalik roseae, and it was discovered in a project that was specifically launched to find a predicted intermediate form between a distinctly fish-like organism, Panderichthys, and the distinctly tetrapod-like organisms, Acanthostega and Ichthyostega.
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Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.
THE MISSING LINK IS STILL MISSING News from Mad Plato 2006
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Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.
Archive 2006-04-01 News from Mad Plato 2006
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This creature is called Tiktaalik roseae, and it was discovered in a project that was specifically launched to find a predicted intermediate form between a distinctly fish-like organism, Panderichthys, and the distinctly tetrapod-like organisms, Acanthostega and Ichthyostega.
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Tiktaalik, which is now admitted to be a fossil with a "quality" that was "poor."
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