Bony fishes are the principal group of backboned animals in contemporary aquatic settings.
Extant species are the focus of a vigorous program of macroevolutionary research, but …

Pterosaurs, the earliest flying tetrapods, are the subject of some recent quantitative
macroevolutionary analyses from different perspectives. 1–2 Here, we use an integrative …

The six species of lungfish possess both lungs and gills and are the closest extant relatives
of tetrapods. Here, we report a single-cell transcriptome atlas of the West African lungfish …

Aim Lungfishes are one of the two surviving clades from the once diverse grade of lobe‐
finned fishes leading to tetrapods. This classic living fossil lineage, which is the living sister …

Synopsis Seahorses, pipefishes, trumpetfishes, shrimpfishes, and allies are a speciose,
globally distributed clade of fishes that have evolved a large number of unusual body plans …

Significant changes occurred in both terrestrial and marine environments in the Devonian,
during which complex terrestrial life radiated rapidly from the ocean. However, the …

The lobe-finned fish, lungfish (Dipnoi, Sarcoptergii), have persisted for~ 400 million years
from the Devonian Period to present day. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is …

Fossilized feces (coprolites) are remarkable tools for paleobiology and paleoecology
assessment. Here they are used to reconstruct the Permian interactions between organisms …

Among cartilaginous fishes, Holocephali represents the species-depauperate,
morphologically conservative sister to sharks, rays and skates and the last survivor of a once …

The Early Devonian **tun Vertebrate Fauna, represented by early members of crown
sarcopterygians, such as Youngolepis, Diabolepis, Psarolepis, Achoania and Styloichthys …