Your Inner Fish
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Your Inner Fish

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Neil Shubin

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Tiktaalik Roseae

This fossil fish (named with an Eastern Canadian Inuit word) was found in 2006 in a fossil site off the coast of Canada near the Arctic Circle. Neil Shubin and his team, who discovered the…

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