We have a new Tangled Bank up, and it's enough to make this old Seattle boy homesick—the premise is to bring up all these nice science links during a walking tour of the city. If only they did sell Tiktaalik at the Pike Place Market…
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I suspect that if Tiktaalik were in Seattle, you would find him (her?) lounging on the fishladder at the Ballard locks, scarfing down whatever ancestral salmon happen to be passing up.