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

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.

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

Tetrapods’ eyes migrated from the sides of their heads to the top, while a passage opened up to connect the mouth and nose. They grew collarbones and necks, ...

Tetrapods (meaning “four legs” in Greek) include all amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, and are thought to originate from lobe-finned fish that made their way out of primeval seas on ...

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

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

“Tetrapods and other types of [concrete] armoring can cause more damage than they prevent, because they alter ocean currents and disrupt the natural cycles of erosion and deposition that form ...

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.

Tetrapods (meaning “four legs” in Greek) include all amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, and are thought to originate from lobe-finned fish that made their way out of primeval seas on ...

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.

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.