All Articles Tagged As: tetrapods

Primordial fish had rudimentary fingers (9/23/2008)

Rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the 'transitional animal,' indicates that rudimentary fingers developed considerably earlier than was previously thought ...> Full Article

Unheard of life history for a vertebrate (7/2/2008)

Herpetologists discover that a Malagasy chameleon spends most of its short life in an egg ...> Full Article

Closing the gap between fish and land animals (6/26/2008)

New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land ...> Full Article

Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica (6/9/2008)

For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods - any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages - in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago. ...> Full Article

Recovering from a mass extinction (1/19/2008)

The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol. ...> Full Article