It was found very close to the shoulder girdle, and it has many of the features that are distinctive of early tetrapod lower jaws. What's really neat about it is it's a very skinny jaw -- it's ...

Newly discovered tetrapod footprints suggest that the evolution of limbed vertebrates may have occurred nearly 20 million years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a study ...

The fossil is named for the Gai-as Formation in Namibia where it was found, and for Jenny Clack, a paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods— the four-limbed vertebrates ...

Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she studied early tetrapods. Her PhD at Duke University focused on the role of oxygen in insect body size regulation. After a ...

David Broussard, Ph.D., department chair and assistant professor of biology, focuses his research on the paleontology of Late Devonian (365 – 360 million years ago) vertebrates including extinct ...

The appearance of a functional neck likely facilitated the adaptation of early tetrapods to terrestrial environments, ensuring their evolutionary success.

Three major stages of humerus shape evolution: from the blocky humerus of aquatic fish, to the L-shape humerus of transitional tetrapods, and the twisted humerus of terrestrial tetrapods.

However, previous research on the morphology and biomechanics of 2D mandibles of early tetrapods suggested that there was little change in the form and function of the mandible until well after ...

We consider species diversity and environmental factors. An exciting collaborative project looks at early tetrapods during the water to land transition. Our research looks at the functional evolution ...