This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United ...

An obscure creature called Acanthostega was responsible for a momentous step in the evolution of life on Earth. Essentially a fish, it was nonetheless the first animal to emerge from the water and ...

A study of the jaws of one of the earliest known limbed vertebrates shows the species still fed underwater, not on land. Scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, University of Zurich, ...

Almost half a billion years ago, dry land was dominated by plants—at least until tetrapods (four-legged animals) crawled out of the water and onto the shore in one of life’s most vital evolutionary ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- 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 ...

A study of the jaws of one of the earliest known limbed vertebrates shows the species still fed underwater, not on land. Tetrapods -- the four-legged limbed vertebrates -- evolved from fish and ...

As one of the earliest tetrapods, Acanthostega gunnari can tell us a lot about the anatomy and ecology of the vertebrates which moved onto land. Unfortunately, none of the fossil specimens includes an ...

The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge. The 3D skull, which ...

Better bone scanning of fossils offers a glimpse of preteen life some 360 million years ago. The bones came from tropical Greenland of the Devonian Period. Aquatic vertebrates were developing four ...

Researchers have shown that fossils of the 360 million-year-old tetrapod Acanthostega, one of the iconic transitional forms between fishes and land animals, are not adults but all juveniles. This ...

This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United ...