Tiktaalik roseae had fish-like fins, a flattened skull (similar to a crocodile ... appendages could have helped support or even propel the animal in shallow water or mud flats.

Instead, he was one of a small, intrepid group of vintners who acquired patches of barren desert in the Negev Desert—a dusty no-man’s land in Israel’s south, about 15 miles from the Egyptian ...