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.
00:38This 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
01:07group,
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.
01:17It'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.
01:26You can see.
01:26Yes, yes.
01:31I do.
01:31So in the next one,
01:36you can see each other's finder.
01:37You can see each other's finder.
01:39You
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