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Edward B. 'Ted' Daeschler is an American vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a specialist in fish paleontology, especially in the Late Devonian, and in the development of the first limbed vertebrates.[1][2][3] He is the discoverer of the transitional fossil tetrapod Hynerpeton bassetti,[4] and a Devonian fish-like specimen of Sauripterus taylori with fingerlike appendages,[5] and was also part of a team of researchers that discovered the transitional fossil Tiktaalik.
He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.[6] He has held recent research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and other donors. He is also known for his work on the preservation of natural history collections.[7] He is a professor at Drexel University in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science.[6]
- ^ Neil and Ted's Excellent Adventure by Sono Motoyama Philadelphia CityPaper Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine July 1–8, 1999
- ^ "Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler: How Fish Came Ashore" PBS 2001
- ^ Pennisi, Elizabeth, "Fossil Shows an Early Fish (Almost) out of Water", Science 7 April 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5770, p. 33 abstract
- ^ Shubin, Neil (2009). Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. New York: Vintage. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-307-27745-9.
- ^ Daeschler, E. B. and N. H. Shubin. 1998. Fish with Fingers?. Nature 391:133.
- ^ a b Lear, Len (2023-11-23). "Hill scientist behind 350-million-year-old fossil exhibit". The Chestnut Hill Local. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
- ^ "Endangered collections" by Rex Dalton Nature 446, 605-606 (5 April 2007) doi:10.1038/446605a