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.
Mar 8, 2017. It became a state in 1907. Oklahoma became a state in 1907( whereas Texas and Kansas had joined the Union in 1845) since it had been a giant reservation where Native American tribes were deported after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.