Watch Dr. Shubin describe how geological knowledge helped him search for (and eventually find!) a transitional species between lobe-finned fishes and true tetrapods; https://youtu.be/daD37TsscvU
and then answer this questions in Word document
1. What are the three qualities an area has to meet to be an area that might potentially
preserve the transitional species between fish and tetrapods?
2. Where did Dr. Shubin and his collaborators first look for this transitional species? What did
they find?
3. What are features characteristic of fish and what are characteristics of features of tetrapods:
Features of bony fish
Features of tetrapods
4. Dr. Shubin and his colleagues found a fossil of the transitional species in 2004. What
features of the fossil resembled fish and what feature of the fossil resembled tetrapods?
5. What did they name this organism? When did it live?