The species Orobates pabsti represents a group of animals that lived after the first animals to walk on land but before the evolution of modern lizards. Jonas Lauströer / Amir Andikfar / HAW Hamburg / ...

African lungfish walk and bound along the bottoms of water tanks on their slender, whiplike pelvic fins, a new study finds. Because lungfish are closely related to some of the earliest four-legged ...

The water-to-land transition is one of the most important and inspiring major transitions in vertebrate evolution. And the question of how and when tetrapods transitioned from water to land has long ...

I love outdated museum displays.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.

Today your dog makes use of his tail for wagging, pointing and chasing in a circle. But tails do far more than that: 360 million years ago, they helped the first land-walkers make the fateful ...

Off the southwest, Co Kerry coast lies one of Ireland's most westerly points and best kept secrets, Valentia Island. Almost 385 million years ago, long before dinosaurs set foot on earth, Ireland and ...

This week, investigating introns’ roles, and reanimating a fossil. Your browser does not support the audio element. Somewhere around the late Devonian era, perhaps ...