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Kochi: Chellanam-Kochi People's Forum organised a hunger strike on Tuesday demanding the construction of a tetrapod sea wall ...
Chellanam-Kochi Janakeeya Vedhi criticizes government's partial tetrapod seawall decision, calling for comprehensive solution to sea erosion issue.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
NOVA: What exactly is a tetrapod? Clack: A tetrapod is an animal with four legs—you, me—or an animal whose ancestors had four legs. So I can talk about a frog, which jumps; a bird, which flies ...
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 ...
Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.
A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have zeroed in on an amphibious fish species to better understand the evolutionary pressures that molded blinking in land-dwelling ...
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.