39 Quotes by Neil Shubin

When we got back into the lab, we removed the rock from the bone, and we began to find some really significant stuff.

We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.

Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support itself on the ground.

Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups.

It could flex the elbow and extend the wrist so the tip of the fin could lie against the ground. It could do a push-up.

It could either push itself straight up and down or pull itself forward. It more likely flopped around like a seal rather than walked like a horse.

It is a fish that shows a surprising combination of characteristics of land-living animals.

Outside, it's a classic Arctic scene. But inside those rocks is a tropical world.

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.