Sentences with phrase «for early tetrapods»
Moving around on land required significantly more huffing and puffing — and oxygen — than swimming for early tetrapods.
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The shoulders and pelvis of early tetrapods expanded and strengthened, allowing for load - bearing on land.
Emma Dunne, from the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken on early tetrapod evolution, and uses many newly developed techniques for estimating diversity patterns of species from fossil records, allowing us greater insights into how early tetrapods responded to the changes in their environment.»
Despite this being a catastrophic event for plants, it has been unclear how this affected the early tetrapod community.
Salamanders are particularly good organisms for studying how locomotion onto land evolved, as their anatomy and ecology is similar to the earliest tetrapods.
The findings are reported by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Barcelona) and their collaborators in the journal eLife and give new insight into how fish evolved to live on land in the form of early tetrapods.