Fossil found

There was an otter-like fossil found and I don't know when it was found. Scientists say they've found a link in the early evolution of seals and walruses. The skeleton of an otter-like creature that was evolving away from a life on land. Those feet features show an early step on the way to developing flippers and other adaptations for a life in the seas. That's what scientists said. The creature is 23 million-year-old. The creature was not an ancestor of today's seals. Not sea lions and walruses either. It's from a different branch. It does show what an early direct ancestor looked like. That's what researcher Natalia Rybczynski said. The fossil was found on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. The notion that the far north was an early center of pinniped evolution. That's what she said. Rybczynski is a researcher at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Colleagues from the United States report the find in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. They named the creature Puijila darwini. That combines a word for young sea mammal. Annalisa Berta is a biology professor at San Diego State University who wasn't involved in the work but welcomed the find. I thought that this was an interesting subject and I think it was kind of cool.