Prehistoric fish crawls into spotlight at Canadian Museum of Nature – Nunatsiaq News
Dec 19, 2025
Tiktaalik roseae, discovered on Ellesmere Island in 2004, on display in Canada for 1st time
The fossil of a prehistoric fish with strong, wrist-like bones is on public display for the first time in Canada as it awaits the final leg of its long journey back home to Nunavut.
Tiktaalik roseae was discovered on Ellesmere Island in 2004 by two American paleontologists. It made headlines in 2006 as part of a study published in the journal Nature that described Tiktaalik as a “missing link” between fish and land creatures.
Now Tiktaalik is the star of a new exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature that examines the Devonian Period, a pivotal era in the history of life on Earth when fish began to make the transition to land.
