This animal represents the transition from water to landthe part of history that includes ourselves.
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The world is filled with puzzles, all kinds of interesting questions and it's our challenge to figure them out. It's not just like this static file cabinet of things that human beings know. It's ever expanding.Neil Shubin
What we saw was a real mosaic between characteristics of fish and those previously thought to be only in land animals. The fossil was showing us how creatures were assembled over time to live on land.
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When we look inside the fin, we see a shoulder, we see an elbow, and we see an early version of a wrist, which is very similar to that of all animals that also walk on land.
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It took a long time for us to figure out really the extent of what we had.
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Outside, it's a classic Arctic scene. But inside those rocks is a tropical world.
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Another thing to get used to in the Arctic is being in the food chain. There are polar bears there, and polar bears eat people. So we carry weapons.
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