It was found very close to the shoulder girdle, and it has many of the features that are distinctive of early tetrapod lower jaws. What's really neat about it is it's a very skinny jaw -- it's ...

Newly discovered tetrapod footprints suggest that the evolution of limbed vertebrates may have occurred nearly 20 million years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a study ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

The discovery of the footprints in a former quarry in the Holy Cross Mountains in southeastern Poland are thought to be 395 million years old -- 18 million years older than the earliest tetrapod ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the ...

The transition from these lobe-fins to the earliest tetrapods -- four-legged animals that walked on land -- has long been of intense interest to biologists. Many of the most telling fossils have ...

The fossil is named for the Gai-as Formation in Namibia where it was found, and for Jenny Clack, a paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods— the four-limbed vertebrates ...

not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups of terrestrial tetrapods emerged and conquered numerous habitats. Since the early 19th century, the Central European Basin has been a historically ...