“If Tiktaalik is our ancestor, then perhaps our holding it accountable for the chaos it sowed is an expression of love.”
– Science reporter
Sabrina Imbler, on the meme-ification of a 375-million-year-old transitional fossil. “The memes yearn to thwack
Tiktaalik with a rolled-up newspaper or poke it with a stick,” writes Imbler, ”anything to shoo it back into the water and avoid our having to go to work and pay rent.”
