News tagged with ichthyostega

Shift to shore: New model shows extinct tetrapod Ichthyostega couldn't walk

Palaeontology has gone high-tech: no more wax and plaster-cast models. Instead, 3D data from computed tomography (CT) scans is overturning long-held views of how the earliest land animals moved.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

May 23, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 4 |

Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapod

New evidence gleaned from CT scans of fossils locked inside rocks may flip the order in which two kinds of four-limbed animals with backbones were known to have moved from fish to landlubber.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 17, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (10) | 0