SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Canadian Museum of Nature Fossil hunters discover new species  Apr 28, 2009 An expedition led by Canadian Museum of Nature paleontologist Natalia Rybczynski found the bones of an animal matching that description in the Haughton crater on Devon Island in the summer of 2007. Early seal-like creatures that had previously been found on the west coast of the United States already had flippers and were clearly at home in an aquatic environment. (Globe and Mail) Seal With "Arms" Discovered -- Evolution at Work  Apr 28, 2009 "We know that some sort of land-dwelling ancestor existed, but how did we get to the fully marine form?" asked Rybczynski, a vertebrate paleontologist with the Canadian Museum of Nature. "There was a morphological gap. So Puijila darwini is an important transition fossil," Rybczynski added. (National Geographic) 'Missing link' fossil seal walked  Apr 28, 2009 "The find suggests that pinnipeds went through a fresh water phase in their evolution," said Natalia Rybczynski from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) in Ottawa, who led the fieldwork. "It also provides us with a glimpse of what pinnipeds looked like before they had flippers.". (BBC News -- Science) Back to Museums News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009