There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits at the end of their limbs is a motif that runs through all the animals with four limbs, called tetrapods. Even when there are fewer than ...

Labord's chameleons are only found in Western Madagascar and have developed a live fast die young life cycle to cope with the ...

They also found evidence showing that the ability to form cornified skin appendages goes all the way back to early tetrapods. Corneous scales are considered to be appendages when they appear on ...

Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she studied early tetrapods. Her PhD at Duke University focused on the role of oxygen in insect body size regulation. After a ...

David Broussard, Ph.D., department chair and assistant professor of biology, focuses his research on the paleontology of Late Devonian (365 – 360 million years ago) vertebrates including extinct ...