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A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits at the end of their limbs is a motif that runs through all the animals with four limbs, called tetrapods. Even when there are fewer than ...

"The thing that really stuns me is that every innovation, every invention used by tetrapods on land, originally appeared in some form in fish, including lungs, appendages, and now, feeding," said ...

They also found evidence showing that the ability to form cornified skin appendages goes all the way back to early tetrapods. Corneous scales are considered to be appendages when they appear on ...

Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she studied early tetrapods. Her PhD at Duke University focused on the role of oxygen in insect body size regulation. After a ...