Vickysaurus · @Vickysaurus
68 followers · 374 posts · Server sauropods.win
On a rainy #Devonian day, a #Tiktaalik father guards his eggs in a small forest river. Meanwhile,his hunting mate has her eye on a #bothriolepis . Another Bothriolepis is eating something buried in the river sediment,drawing the attention of a #Coccosteus.
I've wanted to draw Tiktaalik for a while. It always seems to get depicted pulling itself onto the land. While that was of course extremely important,surely they spent most of their time living quite happily underwater.
#devonian #tiktaalik #bothriolepis #coccosteus #paleoart #myart
neville park · @nev
757 followers · 2792 posts · Server flipping.rocks
we've all read Sabrina Imbler's _Tiktaalik_ NYT piece, right? Just checking.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/science/tiktaalik-fish-fossil-meme.html
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220503205222/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/science/tiktaalik-fish-fossil-meme.html
#scicomm #paleontology #tiktaalik #vertebrateshitposting
Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
618 followers · 901 posts · Server flipping.rocks
Fossil of Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct lobe-finned fish found in 375-million-year-old rock on Ellesmere Island, Canada. Predatory, likely with an ability to hunt on land, too. I think at least five have been found. #FossilFriday #fossil #Devonian #paleontology #tiktaalik #fishapod #Nunavut #biology #nature
#fossilfriday #fossil #devonian #paleontology #tiktaalik #fishapod #nunavut #biology #nature
Neil Shubin · @nshubin
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Tiktaalik has been fully scanned and the type specimen reconstructed by Tom Stewart (formerly of the lab, now with his own at Penn State.) So many surprises in the skeleton, not the least of which is the pelvic fin, pelvis, and its likely connection to the spine. See the preprint here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.11.523301v1
#paleontology #Science #evolution #tiktaalik #arctic
#paleontology #Science #evolution #tiktaalik #arctic
John Orcutt · @GonzagaMEATLab
272 followers · 70 posts · Server ecoevo.social
#FossilAdventCalendar Day 24
Our journey #north ends with one of the most important #fossils ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from #Nunavut 🇨🇦, has an #Inuktitut name (meaning "large freshwater #fish"), and records an important #evolutionary transition, this time from #sea to #land. #Tiktaalik shares traits with both fish and #tetrapods, making it a close relative of all of us land-living #vertebrates. This replica and model are from the #CanadianMuseumOfNature.
#fossiladventcalendar #north #fossils #nunavut #inuktitut #fish #Evolutionary #sea #land #tiktaalik #tetrapods #vertebrates #canadianmuseumofnature
Parliamo di news! · @parliamodinews
16 followers · 87646 posts · Server masthead.socialNuovo fossile del Devoniano mostra un fishapod a quattro zampe che ritornava a vivere in acqua mentre il Tiktaalik si avventurava sulla terraferma – La Macchina del Tempo #fossile #devoniano #mostra #fishapod #zampe #ritornava #vivere #acqua #tiktaalik #avventurava #terraferma #macchina #21luglio https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly9nYWV0YW5pdW1iZXJ0by53b3JkcHJlc3MuY29tLzIwMjIvMDcvMjEvbnVvdm8tZm9zc2lsZS1kZWwtZGV2b25pYW5vLW1vc3RyYS11bi1maXNoYXBvZC1hLXF1YXR0cm8temFtcGUtY2hlLXJpdG9ybmF2YS1hLXZpdmVyZS1pbi1hY3F1YS1tZW50cmUtaWwtdGlrdGFhbGlrLXNpLWF2dmVudHVyYXZhLXN1bGxhLXRlcnJhZmVybWEv
#21luglio #macchina #terraferma #avventurava #tiktaalik #acqua #vivere #ritornava #zampe #fishapod #mostra #devoniano #fossile