The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—An international group of researchers, including three from the University of Utah, has made some surprising discoveries that shed light on the evolution of land vertebrates from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum.

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

When we picture the first tetrapods, or land vertebrates, crawling out of the ocean, we probably imagine they need legs. But ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a study published in Nature ...

Tyrannoroter heberti is a 307-million-year-old land vertebrate that may have been one of the earliest animals to consume plants. Most land vertebrates of that time were predators, feeding on insects ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...