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That swim tracks made by tetrapods occur in high numbers in deposits from the Early Triassic is well known. What is less clear is why the tracks are so abundant and well preserved. Paleontologists ...

KIELCE, Poland, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The world's oldest tetrapod prints have been discovered in the Holy Cross Mountains of southeastern Poland, paleontologists said. The prints of the tetrapods -- ...

A type of vertebrate trace fossil gaining recognition in the field of paleontology is that made by various tetrapods (four-footed land-living vertebrates) as they traveled through water under buoyant ...

I love outdated museum displays. They marvelously represent the “history” part of natural history exhibits – dusty dioramas of old ideas that are a baseline for how much our understanding has changed.

Fossilized footprints found in an abandoned quarry in Poland hint that four-limbed creatures called tetrapods evolved much earlier and in a radically different environment than previously thought. The ...

One of the best-documented evolutionary transitions is the appearance of tetrapods, the four-limbed vertebrates that now dominate the land. A large series of “fishapod” fossils have been discovered ...

Off the southwest, Co Kerry coast lies one of Ireland's most westerly points and best kept secrets, Valentia Island. Almost 385 million years ago, long before dinosaurs set foot on earth, Ireland and ...

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Indeed, since the 1980’s scientific investigations into the origin of tetrapods has exploded, and new discoveries are being made all the time. One new finding, just published in Nature, may even cause ...

These tracks very well might be the earliest traces of tetrapods on record, but that is a hypothesis, not a fact. The fact is that some marine vertebrate with limb-like appendages made these tracks ...