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During the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, our aquatic ancestors evolved to live on land. While most scientists suspect this transition was spurred by the evolution of fins to limbs, it ...

The Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute reports a Lower Devonian (419 to 393 million years ago) fossilized trackway in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, attributed to dipnoan fish.

The origin of four-limbed animals known as tetrapods was thought to be fairly straightforward: Fish flopped onto land in the Devonian, evolved, and eventually diversified into the reptiles, birds, ...

The rivers of Australia, which once flowed across its now dry interior, used to host a range of bizarre animals - including a sleek predatory lobe-finned fish with large fangs and bony scales. The ...

The emergence onto land of four-limbed creatures called tetrapods was a key step in the evolutionary journey of terrestrial organisms, including humans. Writing in Nature, Long et al. 1 present ...

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