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 the Upper Triassic of the Richmond ...
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 ...
TD: We're making that judgment based on other early tetrapods that are found in other places around the world and are clearly still aquatic at that same point in time. It would be a bit of a jump ...
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 ...
The authors believe this finding indicates that the ancient animal must have developed this trait long before it reached land. "The thing that really stuns me is that every innovation, every invention ...
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 ...
These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also includes lungfish (fish with lungs) and tetrapods, a group to which humans also belong. Tetrapods are vertebrates (animals with a ...