A Big Step for a Fish – The Evolution of Four-Legged Land Animals

A Big Step for a Fish – The Evolution of Four-Legged Land Animals

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology via YouTube Direct link

Middle Devonian tracks, Poland

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Middle Devonian tracks, Poland

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A Big Step for a Fish – The Evolution of Four-Legged Land Animals

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  1. 1 A big step for a fish - the evolution of four-legged land animals
  2. 2 1 What are vertebrates?
  3. 3 1 How do vertebrate numbers compare to other organisms?
  4. 4 Tetrapods were not the first on land
  5. 5 Where have early tetrapod and near-tetrapods fossils been found?
  6. 6 Old idea: tetrapods evolved when fish crawled out of drying ponds to find new ponds
  7. 7 Latimeria chalumnae - a living coelacanth
  8. 8 Tiktaalik roseae (2008)
  9. 9 Ichthyostega (East Greenland, 365 million years) hind limb
  10. 10 Middle Devonian tracks, Poland
  11. 11 An alternative view to current dogma: Ichthyostega and Acanthostega are secondarily aquatic tetrapods
  12. 12 When is a fish not a fish?

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