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Working in rocks more than 375 million years old, far above the Arctic Circle, paleontologists Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler have discovered a remarkable new fossil species. It represents the most compelling evidence yet of an intermediate evolutionary stage between fish and early limbed animals. Jokingly called a "fishapod," the animal was part fish and part tetrapod - a name for the earliest limbed animals. Speaker(s):
Ted Daeschler, paleontologists, Academy of Natural Sciences
Neil Shubin, paleontologist, University of Chicago
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