Indeed, since the 1980’s scientific investigations into the origin of tetrapods has exploded, and new discoveries are being made all the time. One new finding, just published in Nature, may even cause ...

The discovery of a 3-metre fossil tetrapod in the Ugab River valley in Namibia has undermined theories about the evolution of these ancient four-legged creatures. Basal tetrapods were animals at the ...

Join us as we travel back in time. We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life ...

"I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought ...

“I’m stunned,” Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden who coordinated the study, said in a statement. “A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into ...

This creature, called Westlothiana lizziae, is one of the earliest examples of a four-legged animal that had evolved from living underwater to dwelling on Earth. It, and other stem tetrapods like it, ...

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Dr Aaron Camens, Professor John Long and Dr Alice Clement with a replica of the fossil trackways at Flinders University's Palaeontology Lab. The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to ...

It’s beginning to look like our success on land, and that of all tetrapods, from frogs to dogs to dinosaurs, was just a lucky side-effect of fish trying to stay fish. Eons is available to stream on ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans ...