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

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed, lived in waters thick with rival fish, including giants several times its ...

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

Tetrapods moved from ancient oceans to land incredibly quickly, but the fossil record doesn't tell the whole story.

The limbs of tetrapods all have the same pattern of bones. Darwin was one of the first to comment that it seems unlikely that this single skeletal structure could be the best one possible for each ...

Covering coasts with concrete: Japan looks to Tetrapods to battle elements Can't stop tsunamis, but "we want to build armor that gives people another 10s to escape." ...

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.

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.

Sustained fast rates of evolution explain how tetrapods evolved from fish Date: August 23, 2021 Source: Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Summary: Biologists ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

That’s why nearly all tetrapods accomplish this by blinking. An unidentified species of male mudskipper launches to attract females during the breeding season in Kuwait.

Light-emitting, four-armed nanocrystals could someday form the basis of an early warning system in structural materials by revealing microscopic cracks that portend failure, thanks to recent ...