最新研究发现颠覆传统认知：布里斯托大学Mike Benton团队通过化石证据分析，对陆地生物在二叠纪末大灭绝事件中的生存状况提出新见解。研究表明，尽管海洋生物遭受重创，但四足动物(Tetrapods)的灭绝规模可能被长期高估，这对理解地球生命演化历程具有重要修正意义。

CANBERRA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- A new Australian-led study has uncovered how ancient lungfish adapted to life on land, offering key insights into vertebrate evolution.

How did the first tetrapods make the transition to a terrestrial habitat.Like early land plants such as rhyniophytes,they made only a partial transition;they were still quite tied to ...

The relationship of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods) to lobe-finned fish (sarcopterygians) is well established, but the origin of major tetrapod features has remained obscure for lack of fossils ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Much of this work has been on the tetrapods — the group that includes the first vertebrates to move to land and all their descendants — but my research focuses on what Blue Beach fossils can tell us ...

All tetrapods descended from a common ancestor that just happened to have limbs with five digits. And over the eons of evolution following that, ...

Tetrapods are the group of animals, including today’s amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals, that evolved to exist on land in a rapid turn of events roughly 375 million years ago.

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals evolved to live on land.