Shubin was part of the team who discovered Tiktaalik during a 2004 expedition in the Canadian Arctic. Qikiqtania was found on the same trip, but the fossil went mostly unstudied while the team ...

Tiktaalik’s ancient cousin decided life was better in the water This paddle-finned fish may have returned to swimming in search of tasty meat. Kate Baggaley Jul 21, 2022 5:00 PM EDT ...

Tiktaalik relied on its elbow to walk, bending its limb at a 90-degree angle into a push-up position. Qikiqtania’s elbow was locked, with its fin extended out in a straight line.

And while Tiktaalik probably wasn't walking across land, it was definitely doing something new. This was a fish that could likely prop itself up and push with its hind fin." ...

But Qikiqtania was much smaller; while Tiktaalik could grow to a whopping 9 feet (2.7 meters) long, Qikiqtania appears to have maxed out around 30 inches (76 centimeters).

Tiktaalik’s four whispers of feet made the fish an easy target. In 2006, the artist Zina Deretsky made a scientific illustration of Tiktaalik for the National Science Foundation.

Around 375 million years ago, the ancient fish known as Tiktaalik roseae, equipped with lobe-shaped fins that it could use to prop itself up, scooted through the shallow waters of present-day ...

Scans show that the spine and ribs of Tiktaalik, one of the first fish to crawl on land, had features that are more like those of early land animals than fish By Michael Le Page 20 February 2023 ...

Now, a new study published in Nature suggests a relative of Tiktaalik – named Qikiqtania wakei – did just that. "You had this evolutionary series of fish evolving to walk, but this one said ...