Australian lungfish are known to be ultra-survivors, but this lungfish is pushing the boundaries even for its own kind. At ...

It was found very close to the shoulder girdle, and it has many of the features that are distinctive of early tetrapod lower jaws. What's really neat about it is it's a very skinny jaw -- it's ...

the Gai-As rock formation in Namibia, and the name of palaeontologist, Jenny Clack, who specialised in evolution in early tetrapods.

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 ...

We consider species diversity and environmental factors. An exciting collaborative project looks at early tetrapods during the water to land transition. Our research looks at the functional evolution ...

This finding suggests that rather than growing slow-and-steady throughout their lives, at least some early tetrapods were growing rapidly to reach their adult size. Credit Skeletal reconstruction ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

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 ...

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs, a formidable predator prowled the swampy waters with a skull over two feet ...

The aerial scene depicts two Late Devonian early tetrapods - Ichthyostega and Acanthostega - coming out of the water to move on land. Footprints trail behind the animals to show a sense of movement.

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