This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United ...

An obscure creature called Acanthostega was responsible for a momentous step in the evolution of life on Earth. Essentially a fish, it was nonetheless the first animal to emerge from the water and ...

NOVA: How did this new idea come about? Clack: The new idea stems from the material we collected in East Greenland in 1987. That proved to be a really rich haul of material, though it took several ...

The first 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a 360-million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created. The 3-D skull, which differs from earlier 2-D reconstructions, suggests such ...

Almost half a billion years ago, dry land was dominated by plants—at least until tetrapods (four-legged animals) crawled out of the water and onto the shore in one of life’s most vital evolutionary ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- New evidence gleaned from CT scans of fossils locked inside rocks may flip the order in which two kinds of four-limbed animals with backbones were known to have moved from fish to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A study of the jaws of one of the earliest known limbed vertebrates shows the species still fed underwater, not on land. Scientists from the University of Lincoln, University of Zurich, University of ...

Researchers have shown that fossils of the 360 million-year-old tetrapod Acanthostega, one of the iconic transitional forms between fishes and land animals, are not adults but all juveniles. This ...

The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge. The 3D skull, which ...

This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the United ...