Via the Panda’s Thumb blog, here comes another science song for your delectation.
Tiktaalik (Your Inner Fish), by the Indoorfins, concerns the strange ‘fishapod’ fossil that is halfway between the gutter and the stars fish and land-dwellers. It was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania’s reading project on Neil Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish.
Shubin discovered the Tiktaalik fossil, and is commemorated in this song:
From the water to the land I;
Learn to swim and learn to stand I’m;
Found here by the hands of Neil Shubin.
Carry me home;
To find the Inner fish unknown
Previously on Songs about Science
Songs about science part III: geology
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
Songs about science VII: ‘It’s a long way from Amphioxus’
Songs about science part VIII: the astrobiology rap
Songs about science IX: Rollin’ to the Future