Chapter One: FInding Your Inner Fish

Excluding the few paragraphs in the beginning, chapter one seemed very redundant like "Ideal to preserve fossils are sedimentary rocks:limestones, sandstone, siltstones, and shales"(10). It just seemed to be saying everything i already knew. However, as the chapter progressed, it became more interesting, I had always seen fossils in museums but learning the process behind finding a fossil was a new experience for me. I had no idea that i took a lot of time and effort to find one fossil that might uncover the secrets of the past. Also, the conditions their team had to persevere through like "[...] risked being eaten by polar bears, running out of food, or being marooned by bad weather"(16) baffled me. Was finding a fossil worth freezing to death in the Arctic, running out of food, and etc? It was gratifying to see that their hard work had paid off when they found Tiktaalik or "large freshwater fish." It was also intriguing to see that this fossil helped to show that arm bones of humans can be traced back into something like a fish.