image: Tetrapod dentary in a rock matrix. Superbly preserved fossils from Russia, excavated with support of a grant from the National Geographic Society and described today by an international team in ...

NOVA follows paleontologists as they search for evidence of how humans evolved legs. surveys 70 years of the search for the first Devonian tetrapod and the fish with legs from which it came. follows ...

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 ...

This study is conducted by Drs. Wenjin Zhao and Min Zhu (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Drs. Xiaolin Zhang and Yan’an Shen (University of ...

“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 ...

The 372-million-year-old fossils of tetrapod — creatures that evolved from fish living in water to creatures that walked on land — have been discovered by researchers in Russia. And given how well ...

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A recently discovered and exceptionally diverse cache of fossils — including a fragment of one of the oldest ancestors of all land vertebrates — is giving Bucknell University professors and students a ...

The v-shaped bone turned out to be the lower jaw of a fish, but not any fish Neil Shubin had ever seen. The University of Chicago paleontologist had been chipping his way through an ancient rock ...

Superbly preserved fossils from Russia cast new and surprising light on one of the earliest tetrapods -- the group of animals that made the evolutionary transition from water to land and ultimately ...