Back in 2004, a fossil tetrapod from the Canadian Arctic achieved near-celebrity status, at least for mineralized skulls. The newly discovered specimen, named Tiktaalik roseae, made appearances on the ...

The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years ago. The first African fossils of Devonian ...

20 curious facts about the story of how our distant ancestors made the transition from water to land In 1999, paleontologist Per Ahlberg, sifting through an old museum drawer, discovered a fragment of ...

Light-emitting, four-armed nanocrystals could someday form the basis of an early warning system in structural materials by revealing microscopic cracks that portend failure, thanks to recent research ...

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Oct. 24 (UPI) --According to most anthropologists, tetrapods were the first animals to ditch the sea for land. The group evolved from fishes, and once on land, they gave rise to amphibians, reptiles, ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the 360 million-year-old Late Devonian world in which the first known polar tetrapods lived. Tutusius, right, eyes potential prey while Umzantsia, left, dives deeper into ...

I love outdated museum displays. They marvelously represent the “history” part of natural history exhibits – dusty dioramas of old ideas that are a baseline for how much our understanding has changed.

One of the most important, most mystifying moments in the history of the planet was the emergence of the first fish out of water and the evolution of those fish into the earliest land-living tetrapods ...