Tiktaalik is a transitional fossil; it is to tetrapods what Archaeopteryx is to birds, troodonts and dromaeosaurids. 1  While it may be that neither is ancestor to any living animal, they serve as evidence that intermediates between very different types of vertebrates did once exist.
Minnesota became a part of the United States as the Minnesota Territory in 1849, and became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858.
Once it was found, it was discovered Ohio becoming a state was never ratified by Congress nor was it signed off on at the Congressional level. The powers that be in the Ohio government rushed through paperwork to Congress and on August 7, 1953, Ohio was officially made a state by Congress, made retroactive to March 1, 1803. On February 19, 1803, US President Thomas Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution.[65]