The pentadactyl limbs that tetrapods far and wide all have are examples of homologous structures. The term refers to similarities among species that are inherited from common ancestors.

Ian Jenkins, Geological Magazine 7. A review of the British Middle Triassic tetrapod assemblages Michael J. Benton, Geoffrey Warrington, Andrew J. Newell and Patrick S. Spencer 8. Small tetrapods from ...

For one, "ladder thinking" leads to statements that incorrectly imply that one living species or group is ancestral to another; examples of such statements include "tetrapods (land vertebrates ...

In this video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," paleontologist Neil Shubin recounts a fossil discovery that added another compelling piece to the body of evidence ...

The results of the study, titled "Tetrapod sperm length evolution in relation to body mass is shaped by multiple trade-offs," were published in the journal Nature Communications.The corresponding ...

Today, coelacanths are particularly tied to deep water volcanic areas, like the Comoros Islands. Lobe-finned fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to tetrapods than to ray-finned fishes ...

Unfortunately, such benchmarking data is critically lacking at this point. For example, one of the appealing features of nanowires is that they can be single-crystalline, well-faceted with low ...

Fossil case studies that suggest a behavioural role in evolution include: feeding shifts in finely resolved sequences of vertebrates, ranging from freshwater fish to terrestrial ungulates locomotion ...

Because all later land vertebrates, or tetrapods, can be traced back to ... The Australian lungfish, for example, still has the limb-like fins that once enabled its relatives to move on land.

The discovery is now the earliest known example of a fossil from an amniote ... a place to find a rich and diverse collection ...

There were a lot of features that were different from those in older tetrapods, amphibians' ancient ancestors. For example, the region of the skull behind the animal's eyes was much shorter than ...

Parsis who visited the site recently said that a mud embankment and tetrapods will block seawater from reaching the steps. They have said that a metal plaque that commemorated the history of the ...