Medicine & TechnologyAbout 375 million years ago, Tiktaalik, a fish with lobed fins and gills, pioneered land exploration, yet modern humans lack gills. Explore why do we not have gills despite evolving from fish.
New research suggests that the mucus-filled tears of the blinking fish mudskippers may tell a story of how tetrapods evolved. Read the article to learn more.
The fossils of this fish-like creature were first discovered 130 years ago and now it has finally found its place in the tree of life. Read on to find out if it was indeed the earliest ancestor of humans.
The evolutionary solution of limblessness in snakes seems to be a hit to their species. Continue reading to learn about animals that lost their legs and started crawling.
A new study wa able to identify what ancestral gene caused the shift between preaxial and postaxial limb development in the evolution of vertebrate tetrapods.
A new study suggests that tetrapods are way older than initial estimates. In addition, tetrapods was discovered to have the fastest aquatic to land evolution which they maintained over millions of years.