(Another) "Missing Link" Discovered (Again)

[Gord_in_Toronto]

The skull of a 375-million-year-old Arctic fossil fish reveals that the "fishapod" could nod its head up and down and may have breathed air, a new study says.

These new clues may help explain how our fish ancestors evolved into land dwellers.

The fossil fish—called Tiktaalik roseae—was discovered in the Canadian Arctic in 2004 and provides the 'missing link' between fish and land vertebrates, according to scientists.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081015-tiktaalik-evolution-missions.html

If science can discover another few thousand of such "missing links" the Creationists may be finally satisfied. (Or, then again, maybe not. )

 

[Tiktaalik]

 

[GreyICE]

Hah! This merely creates TWO Missing links, one between fish and this fossil fish, and one between fossil fish and land dwellers! Evolution develops yet another hole! Isn't it amazing how all the 'evidence' for evolution creates even more questions? ID answers all questions! Evolution is a theory, not a fact.

 

[roger]

It just keeps getting worse and worse for you evolution folks. Now there are 2! missing links between fish and land, where before there was only one. And you count this as a win! [/cretinist]

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

It just keeps getting worse and worse for you evolution folks. Now there are 2! missing links between fish and land, where before there was only one. And you count this as a win! [/cretinist]

The Tiktaalik roseae nods its head wisely at these responses.

 

[Brian-M]

It just keeps getting worse and worse for you evolution folks. Now there are 2! missing links between fish and land, where before there was only one. And you count this as a win! [/cretinist]

Did you mean [/creationist], or was the typo deliberate?

Either way, it works for me.

 

[learner]

Maybe its not nodding. It could be a reverse gear. Time will tell.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Not to be a party pooper, but isn't this old news?

 

[leonAzul]

Not to be a party pooper, but isn't this old news?

It's being published in a generally available journal this week, so it has become topical again.

ETA

Link to abstract of article in this week's issue of Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/abs/nature07189.html

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

It's being published in a generally available journal this week, so it has become topical again.

ETA

Link to abstract of article in this week's issue of Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/abs/nature07189.html

Ah, thankee sir. My comment was based on Tiktaalik not only being de reguir (sic) in Crevo discussions about transitionals, but the fact that our own member using the ID Tiktaalik registered over 2 years ago.

Carry on.

 

[pchams]

Not to be a party pooper, but isn't this old news?

Gord's from Toronto eh?

The dog sleds just got here.

 

[roger]

Did you mean [/creationist], or was the typo deliberate?

You say tomato, I say tamato...

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Gord's from Toronto eh?

The dog sleds just got here.

Then we have to defrost the journals and papers in a decompression chamber otherwise the ink smears.

 

[BenBurch]

I think the new information here is that its head likely articulated in the up-down axis.