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Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing ...

On September 28, Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor Neil Shubin attended the annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards to accept an award for his PBS series Your Inner Fish. PBS has already ...

For more on this story, check out the Maroon podcast, On Beat — Your Inner Fish. Tiktaalik is slim and sleek—its flat, triangular head, punctuated squarely by two tiny, beaded eyes, grows into an ...

It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates, the ancestors you never knew ...

In the opening episode, Neil journeys from an American highway to the Arctic Circle to connect our lungs, arms, legs and hands to a prehistoric fish that crawled onto land 375 million years ago.