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Why do they still teach us this in school? Alas for Tiktaalik as a missing link, this assumption has been faulted. Several well-preserved footprints undoubtedly made by a four-legged animal were found in Poland in rock ‘dated’ at 18 million years older than Tiktaalik.7 Nature admitted: “They force a radical reassessment of the timing, ecology and environmental setting of the fish–tetrapod transition … .”8 Putative tetrapod footprints found in Poland and reported in Nature in January 2010 were securely dated at 10 million years older than the oldest known elpistostegids.[18] If this is a true tetrapod record, Tiktaalik was a late-surviving relic rather than the original transitional form. An alternative interpretation is that the Polish trackways, which do not have digital impressions, were made by walking fish [19] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik creation/abandoned-transitional-forms
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:38:04 +0000

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