Q: Tell me about some of the important fossils you've found in Pennsylvania. TD: One of the fascinating things we discovered early in the project was an animal that we named Hynerpeton, which means ...

Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a 275-million-year-old species, Tanyka amnicola, with a corkscrewed jaw and sideways teeth, marking it as a 'living fossil' from an ancient tetrapod lineage ...

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I love outdated museum displays. They marvelously represent the “history” part of natural history exhibits – dusty dioramas of old ideas that are a baseline for how much our understanding has changed.

This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United ...

Out of the ocean An armour of acid-neutralising bone helped four-legged vertebrates to survive when they first crawled out of the ocean, say researchers. Palaeontologist Dr Christine Janis, from Brown ...

With so few fossils mapping out the transition debates went on for decades about the details of how vertebrates became adapted to life on land. This was not helped by some delays in the description of ...

Lost species are those that have not been observed in the wild for over ten years, despite searches to find them. Lost tetrapod species (four-limbed vertebrate animals including amphibians, birds, ...

Researchers have developed advanced opto-mechanical stress probes based on tetrapod quantum dots (tQDs) that allow precise measurement of the tensile strength of polymer fibers with minimal impact on ...