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.
Answer: Ohio became the 17th United State on March 1, 1803, just seven years after Moses Cleaveland landed near Conneaut Creek and began to survey the area. At the time it became a state, Ohio had a population of around 45,000 people. Fun fact: technically Ohio did not become a state until 1953. It seems that when the Buckeye State was planning its 150th anniversary celebration, someone tried to look up the paperwork and found that a state charter was never filed. There's some confusion as to why or if Ohio really needed one at the time.