00:00Music
00:16And the name of this missing link is Titalik rosei.
00:20It means large, shallow water fish in the Nunavut language of northern Canada.
00:25The fossilised bones of Titalik show just how much it is a missing link between fish and animals.
00:31It had scales and fins like a fish, but its bones are very similar to ours of our bodies today.
00:37This is the shoulder bone, and you can see the socket where the arm fitted in.
00:42This, although it's short and stubby, is the humerus, the bone of the upper arm here.
00:48These two are the radius and ulna, the two bones of the lower arm.
00:52There are wrist bones here, but instead of fingers, because it not yet evolved properly,
00:57there are rays like the fins of a fish.
01:00It's one of those fossils that shows us a stage where we've acquired some of the features of a major group,
01:07but not all of them.
01:08So, in a sense, it's equivalent to that proto-bird called Archaeopteryx,
01:14which has got some features of reptiles. It's got a long tail, it's got teeth and so on.
01:20But it's also got feathers and wings, so it's got bird features as well.
01:24So, it's that kind of combination of characters.
01:28So, we can see it around the corner.
01:35So, we're going to hold a little bit smaller.
01:36But there's a lot more times if we have a few different ideas.
01:40We can imagine how we can match the process of an inch with a large one,
01:42and we can imagine how we have a sort of a tiny bunch of ones.
01:44So, we're going to be able to watch our original image.
01:45The blue line, the pink line and the black line, the black line, the white line.
01:47So, we can see those where we have a group of monsters.
01:49The black line of white line is a beautiful thing.
01:51So, we can see how we can see the race.
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