Fish With Fingers
A description of Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin's discovery of a transitional fish-tetrapod animal.
Out of the Swamps
A description of Casineria, an early tetrapod from Scotland, from Science News Online.
The Origin of Tetrapods and Temnospondyls
Lecture notes from the Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution class at the University of Toronto.
Central Pennsylvania Legacies: Fishing for History
An article, accompanying a public radio broadcast, describing the discovery of Hynerpeton bassetti at the Red Hill fossil site. A Real Audio archive of the broadcast is included.
First Footing
A article about the debate between paleontologists and geologists regarding the age of the Celsius Bjerg Group, the fossil site where Ichthyostega and Acanthostega were discovered. From the journal Nature.
Basal Tetrapod and Amphibian Trees
A list of cladograms tested for their correspondence with stratigraphic data, with references.
Evolution of Limbs
A description of the possible effects of the Hox gene family on vertebrate evolution.
Eucritta melanolimnetes
Science update from the journal Nature on an early Carboniferous tetrapod, the name of which translates as "Creature from the Black Lagoon".
Ancient Amphibians Discovered in Iowa
Description of this Mississippian fossil site.
Dendrerpeton acadianum
An early temnospondyl found in petrified tree stumps from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
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