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

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

This early tetrapod from the side of the road in Clinton ... that early limbed animals were actually pretty much fish with limbs. NS: There's another important evolutionary point here.

Clearly, the answer to both of these questions is no. Why, then, does a statement like "tetrapods evolved from fish" seem reasonable at first glance? "Tetrapods evolved from fish" might be ...

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 ...

Lobe-finned fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to tetrapods than to ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), which make up about 99% of the known fish species. Tetrapods include birds, ...

Unlike nearly all fossil fish of that age, Palaeospondylus was ... Palaeospondylus was related either to chondrichthyans (sharks), or tetrapods (the land vertebrates). Or maybe it was a stem ...

Broussard, D., Daeschler, T., Trop, J.M., 2018, Detrital chronostratigraphic constraints on upper Devonian tetrapod and fish assemblages in Catskill Formation sites of north-central Pennsylvania: ...