Sentences with phrase «tetrapod evolution»

Clack, however, believes a reassessment of the consensus view on tetrapod evolution might be in order.

A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forelimbs of tiger salamanders can now be used to analyze early fossils that spanned the water - to - land transition in tetrapod evolution, and further understand their capability to move 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.»

Not exact matches

Gaining Ground The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods.

Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification (TW: eed) re-created the environments these distant relatives called home.

In the course of evolution, tetrapods developed various body shapes and sizes — from the mouse to the dinosaur — to adapt to different environments.

The findings indicate that these stages of ear evolution were set 10 million years before tetrapods appeared, the team reports 19 January in Nature.

«It forces a radical rethink of what evolution was capable of among the first tetrapods,» said project lead Jason Anderson, a paleontologist and Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM).

The researchers wanted to test what factors could have driven diversity in skeletal design in the evolution of early tetrapods.

«Our discovery suggests that the current scientific consensus is mistaken not only about when the first tetrapods evolved, but also about where they evolved,» says Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki of the Department of Palaeobiology and Evolution at the University of Warsaw in Poland, who discovered the footprints in 2002 in an old quarry near the town of Kielce.

«The pattern of co-occurring species remained stable through the evolution of land organisms from the earliest tetrapods through dinosaurs, flowering plants and mammals,» said Anna K. Behrensmeyer, a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and a co-author of the study.

Dazl arose through duplication from ancestral Boule during the evolution of bony fish, possibly after its split from lamprey and cartilaginous fish but prior to the divergence of ray - finned fish and lobe - finned fish (i.e. tetrapod animal lineage).

This family of loaches, sometimes called sting - loaches, is found in Eurasia and Morocco and has about 28 genera with about 236 species (Berra The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe - finned fishes.

The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe - finned fishes.