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.
When Kansas Became a State. Spring 1961 (Vol. 27, No. 1), pages 1 to 21. Transcribed by Jim Scheetz; digitized with permission of. the Kansas Historical Society. NOTE: The numbers in brackets refer to endnotes for this text.