A 3-D digital reconstruction of one of Earth's earliest four-legged land animals suggests it couldn't walk on all four limbs. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek reports.

Kochi: Chellanam-Kochi People's Forum organised a hunger strike on Tuesday demanding the construction of a tetrapod sea wall ...

The relationship of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods) to lobe-finned fish (sarcopterygians) is well established, but the origin of major tetrapod features has remained obscure for lack of fossils ...

Toes are a key tetrapod trait, Tiktaalik did not have them, and one of the best-preserved representations of a foot with toes is specimen Muz. PGI 1728.II.1.

They now think that the tetrapod ancestor appeared during the Devonian, and that amniotes began to diverge from them about 395 million years ago, 35 to 40 million years earlier than previously ...

Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.

This newly discovered tetrapod with a funky shaped head is described in a study published July 3 in the journal Nature. “ Gaiasia jennyae was considerably larger than a person, and it probably ...

High-level meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on July 2 to discuss Phase-2 construction of Chellanam seawall for shoreline ...

The lungfish—a slippery freshwater creature that measures just over three feet long—watched as all other tetrapods developed new, unique characteristics like webbed feet, hooves, and opposable ...

A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found.