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

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 ...

Contrary to what might be expected given the prevalence of plant-eating animals today, herbivory appears to be a relatively recent diet, Wiens said. Tetrapods are ancestrally carnivorous.

By Bobby Bascomb Just 0.7% of the world’s land surface is home to one-third of the world’s most threatened and unique ...

Think about the hundreds of years nobody had been able to find evidence of these late Devonian limbed animals on this continent. People hadn't really understood that early tetrapods might have ...

By protecting 0.7% of Earth's land, we can save one-third of endangered tetrapods species. The zones house unique species ...

A new Australian coelacanth find has revealed a surprising force behind the slow evolution of these ‘living fossils’.

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Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

But frogs aren't the only animals that go through metamorphosis. Butterflies also go through a lot of changes during their life cycle. The female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf, out of which ...

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