News tagged with tetrapod
Fish out of water: Gene clue to evolutionary step
Two genes controlling a tissue protein may have played a role in the key period when fish shed their fins and became limbed land-lovers, a study published by Nature on Thursday said.
Jun 24, 2010 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lungfish provides insight to life on land
A study into the muscle development of several different fish has given insights into the genetic leap that set the scene for the evolution of hind legs in terrestrial animals. This innovation gave rise to the tetrapods—four-legged ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Fossil footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history
The discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in Poland leads to the sensational conclusion that our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier than previously thought. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 06, 2010 |
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