Tidal marshes : home for the few and the highly selected / Russell Greenberg -- The Quaternary geography and biogeography of tidal saltmarshes / Karl P. Malamud-Roam [and others] -- Diversity and ...

New fossil evidence is overturning a long-held assumption about how vertebrates first transitioned from water to land. The hatchlings of three different animals related to the earliest land-goers show ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

Life did not begin on land. For billions of years, every living organism existed in the oceans. Then, about 400 million years ago, a small group of fish-like animals started exploring the shallow ...

A research team at Yunnan University has resolved a longstanding mystery regarding Earth’s earliest vertebrates, revealing that primitive fish from the Cambrian Period likely possessed four ...