“Living fossil” fish DNA may help explain how the first animals to walk on land evolved
The coelacanth is classed as a sarcopterygian, a term meaning fleshy fins. (c) Chip Clark/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, ...
Tag: tetrapods
First four legged land animals moved about like seals
Researchers who had performed the first high detail 3-D reconstruction of early tetrapod (four-legged animals) backbones claim the first land ...
Fish that can breath above water hints on the evolution of walking
Researchers studying a primitive fish exhibiting an eel-like body, and which can breath above water, claim that the creature's ancestors ...
Humans are just modified fish
A study into muscle development conducted on several fish has given valuable insight regarding the genetic leap that moved the ...
