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In this transcript of an interview filmed for Evolution: "Great Transformations," Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.
Paleontologists Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe their fossil finds of aquatic, early limbed animals: Hynerpeton with its powerful forelimbs; the thick-jawed Densignathus rowei; Sauripterus with its muscular fin about the size of a tennis racket head; and the very large and ferocious lobe-fin fish Hyneria. Excerpted from an interview filmed for Evolution: "Great Transformations."
Describe the combination of observation, comparison, and inference that Drs. Daeschler and Shubin use to reconstruct the habits of early tetrapods based on the shoulder girdle.
Discuss the importance of the diversity of fossil fishes and early tetrapods that lived during the same time period.
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