Neil Shubin (U. Chicago): Finding Tiktaalik, the Fossil Link Between Fish and Land Animals

[@mickles1975]

There's only one youtube channel linking to this video, that we know of.

[@grene1955]

"That we know of!" Thanks, Lindsay Nichole!

[@mdhbigdog]

I'm reading Neil Shubin's book, "Your Inner Fish," that explains the same information in much greater detail. Excellent book! I'm a big fan of tetrapods.

[@JiveDadson]

There's a great video too, the first of three episodes. "Your Inner Fish"

[@pavel9652]

What a nerdy title! ;)

[@crimsonshadow1477]

His energy is super infectious

[@silentbooks3879]

We are all connected. Period. I feel bad for all these creatures who are no more with us, but who unknowingly have given us so much of knowledge and last but not the least, a very big thanks to all you good people who do the research and digging and all that to uncover the truth...to put that missing piece.

[@t84t748748t6]

i am impressed we figured out so much like fossils are almost never complete and the animals that do fossilize are so few when compared to al that lived if the animal branch lived in a place that doesnt make fossils we wil never know it lived

[@prabhakarv4193]

Yes. Nice

[@prabhakarv4193]

More information please

[@honeycombhex2357]

If you are here for an assignment, click ... next to the like button and there's a transcript. watch the video then read it! Good luck 😊

[@jimmygravitt1048]

This discovery is undoubtedly one of the strongest verifications of the entire scientific process in history. I am glad I now know the name of one of the people who made it possible.

[@humbleevidenceaccepter7712]

Goodness, how exciting! _Australopithecus afarensis, Archaeopteryx lithographica,_ and _Tiktaalik roseae_ are my three all-time favorite fossil finds.

[@harveydayaday4753]

A. afarensis and archeopteryx are debunk already as transitional species.

[@humbleevidenceaccepter7712]

@@harveydayaday4753 *"A. afarensis and archeopteryx are debunk already as transitional species."* Says who? Someone like yourself whose education in Biology (and also apparently, English) peaked in junior high? The only thing 'debunked' here is the assumption you know what you're talking about. Perhaps you can enlighten us with other ignorant opinions on things you are clearly uninformed on. What's your take on the latest financial announcement made by the Fed? Do you think the landing system of the latest Mars rover is efficient? What about the efficacy of _fluvastatin_ compared to other HMG Coenzyme A reductase inhibitors? Fool.

[@waitslegacyblitz728]

@@harveydayaday4753 I smell a young earth creationist.

[@pavel9652]

​@@waitslegacyblitz728 These intellectual maggots infest every corner of the internet. Thanks GAWD they are so dumb ;)

[@pavel9652]

Steve is an MVP! Steve found Tiktaalik in Canadian arctic, and earlier he found toes and leg bones in Pennsylvania when Neil was gone to the other expedition ;)

[@grene1955]

I consider his book, "Your Inner Fish" one of the best paleontology books I've ever read. In 2022, I got to visit the Royal Tyrell Museum outside of Edmonton, and saw the Tiktaalik exhibit...just very cool to see history come to life!

[@Darthloozer]

This is a great video! So interesting to see how multiple disciplines of science were used to locate the fossil!

[@imhypers]

Wow such a great video for understanding the transition of life through the fossil record, addressing the questions I had for if we had tangible evidence of the "missing link" in our fossil records.

[@CG-tj7un]

ive met him nicest guy in the world and his lab is awesome

[@juliannowicki241]

Thak you, Tiktaalik!

[@pgrothschild]

Read his book recently, brilliant read

[@arthurbellic3765]

Can't believe George Lucas teaches me about my grandpa

[@MrWolynski]

Great presentation!

[@jeova0sanctus0unus]

Good day everyone, Lindsay Nicole send me! She sais your videos are good. lets see.

[@giovaniakabacon]

Very entertaining and informative

[@Sharonmxg]

How does a video that says it premiered 2 hours ago have comments from months ago?

[@araucaria09]

Que interesante descubrimiento del Tiktaalik en un lugar remoto del planeta

[@jorismilleret]

That's an incredible quest to discover something half-something hlf something

[@jjcole6544]

Hell ya! This video is amazing!

[@TheRumpusView]

Very informative and entertaining.

[@pavel9652]

Important discovery and one of the proofs of evolution. Many maroons claim theory of evolution had no predictive capabilities, which is not true, but this find is perhaps the most definitive prof it has! Stay curious! ;)

[@LewChase]

Great!

[@bllaine]

School sucks I needed the last five minutes -_-

[@joshuaburns1886]

bruh lool same.

[@pavel9652]

It sucks, but if you skip it, you might become the next generation of flat-earthers ;)

[@tomdailey6915]

Very interesting and entertaining. Thank you!

[@RealRobloxian01]

I’m in an assignment where I have to know how the tikaalik provides evidence that amphibians evolved from fish. Who is in grade 7 here?

[@seanghengsar7122]

i love the video

[@dna1238]

❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 by deduction ?Impossible = 25 million years ?

[@carlosvelasquez2625]

Great job sir finally I know where my whole arm bones come from!! An important detail to the big picture.

[@pavel9652]

True, even whales have such bone structures in their arms!

[@marionrodrigo6385]

great

[@taajchauhan-rk7zx]

Thank you, titaalik the almighty

[@harrisondocarmo7923]

brabo

[@basementdweller100]

Cool a giant salamander found 20 million years after tetra pod footprints.

[@SissypheanCatboy]

neither of these things you said were correct lmao

[@Tylwaa]

Silliest thing I ever heard!

[@spatrk6634]

what is silly about predicting transitional species and then finding it exactly as predicted?

[@thinkingaboutreligion2645]

Thanks for supporting the algorithm so that people can learn about evolutionary biology!

[@draven7348]

swag

[@dfghj241]

look, i'm still surprised plants are only 200'ish million years old.

[@GReid-ol5gk]

+Paulo H me too

[@-justyourfriendlyneighborh5898]

Paulo H well, "plants" are that old but organisms that used photosynthesis but weren't completely "plants" began long before that.

[@nesslig2025]

1:10 says "three things" but uses two fingers....but still good video of course.

[@whatabouttheearth]

Places with naked bedrock?...MISSOURI

[@pavel9652]

Do you mean bedrock of stupidity? ;) It is one of the states infested by Mormons, isn't it?

[@JeshuSavesEndTimeMinistry21C]

Religion Belief

[@spatrk6634]

religion belief is ridiculous

[@aGrassyone]

Laura Reyes wak yes

[@alvarogines6788]

We are salamanders

[@shihyuchu6753]

So where is the PARTIALLY developed neck..part way between a fully developed neck and NO neck?

[@richardblazer8070]

Tiktaalik has greater mobility of what is homologous to our cervical vertebrae, and later genera such as ichthyostega and acanthostega have even more prominent basal necks.

[@Luzt.]

I've got two engineering degrees and probably that is why I think "the informational/factual density" of this video is very low. It's like an essay of a student who only knows reading list but read none of the books. "... Neil Shubin has been obsessed with finding fossils of the creature that marked the transition from fish to land dwelling animals ..." not a good indication of impartial approach, critical thinking, intellectual rigor. Evolution is presupposed, facts are interpreted to fit this and finally, conclusions are used to support theory of evolution. Nice circular pattern used for brain-dead viewers.

[@jomellimbago4358]

Niel Shubin have articles on Titaalik rosae, he explained it very well for everyone to understand. Anyway, this is a part of evolutionary lectures ... If you read some articles in Evolutionary Biology then you will appreciate this one

[@jomellimbago4358]

One more thing this is also part of comparative Vertebrate anatomy. See the book of Kardong (2012)

[@taggartlawfirm]

Luzt it’s for the uninitiated, if you already know this, it’s not for you.

[@taggartlawfirm]

Luzt and no it’s not circular reasoning. It’s more like developing the uniform field theory. We know where we are, we know where we came from, we have a theory. We look in and where we hope to support our theory. They found something, of that correct age and development that supports the existing theory. Incidental, circular reasoning is used every day in mathematics as well as tautology. A geometric proof is pure circular reasoning.

[@taggartlawfirm]

And my hero, the viewers are not the ones who are “brain dead,”evolution is not a presupposed theory, it is now accepted as scientific fact, being supported both by the fossil record and actual observation. I don’t mean to be unkind, but there are 400 million years worth of well preserved fossils showing the evolution of various species connected by anatomical similarity. Further, more recent fossils or preserved remains from the Pleistocene and Holocene have had recoverable DNA which has left a chemical and genetic record of more recent descent and evolution. I have great respect for engineers, coming from a long line of engineers, but it was the engineers who said powered heavier than air flight was impossible, that iron ships couldn’t float, and that the patent office should be shut down since everything useful had already been invented. It was also engineers who proved all those assertions wrong. Be the second kind of engineer; the kind that aren’t brain dead.

[@hexo-mobius]

This was debunked in 2010. Why are you still teaching it as science?

[@GuardianSoulkeeper]

What was?

[@walkergarya]

No liar, this has NOT been "debunked". It was your creationism that was debunked 165 years ago.

[@spatrk6634]

@@GuardianSoulkeeper he thinks that evolution is debunked because scientists found earlier tetrapod footprints than tiktaalik.

[@shihyuchu6753]

Reconstruct? If you can illustrate..lt MUST be true, right?

[@richardblazer8070]

Well, no, we don’t just draw the transitional features on them, the fossil has that, they are there, sorry.

[@pavel9652]

For more details info you have to look into research papers. For obvious reasons popular-science videos can not be comprehensive.

[@robhicks2117]

It's a giant salamander! And they still exist! Google it and see for yourself!!! 😁😁

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

You keep telling that lie. But its not a salamander. Google REAL science yourself.

[@jaydelgado1994]

@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv So which is it? Are you an APE? or are you a FISH? .. Don't you wannabe Apes believe in the law of monophyly?? Here is a good website for you.. WWW.EVOLUTIONFAIRYTALE.COM

[@ivanbarac5580]

WoW,what a lie! This is not true bro.

[@teodoranirmala3163]

Ivan Barac Are there evidences that prove this video told lies?

[@smhaack63]

@@teodoranirmala3163 Jesus told him God spoke animals into existence.

[@jamgrl38]

@@teodoranirmala3163www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/1/100106-tetrapod-tracks-oldest-footprints-nature-evolution-walking-land/

[@pavel9652]

Your ignorance isn't nearly as good as our knowledge, so try again, except without lying. See your commandments. Why do you have to lie for your GAWD?

[@pauldirc..]

​@@teodoranirmala3163 blind believe in bible