The question of how tetrapod limbs evolved from fins is one of the great puzzles of
evolutionary biology. While palaeontologists, developmental biologists, and geneticists have …

The largest published phylogenetic analysis of early limbed vertebrates (Ruta M, Coates MI.
2007. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5: 69–122) recovered, for example …

The acquisition of terrestrial, limb-based locomotion during tetrapod evolution has remained
a subject of debate for more than a century,. Our current understanding of the locomotor …

This paper is the first in a two‐part series that charts the evolution of appendicular
musculature along the mammalian stem lineage, drawing upon the exceptional fossil record …

This paper is the second in a two‐part series that charts the evolution of appendicular
musculature along the mammalian stem lineage, drawing upon the exceptional fossil record …

The transition from fish to tetrapod was arguably the most radical series of adaptive shifts in
vertebrate evolutionary history. Data are accumulating rapidly for most aspects of these …

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more
unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea …

The lack of fossil tetrapod bearing deposits in the earliest Carboniferous ('Romer's Gap') has
provoked some recent discussions regarding the proximal cause, with three explanations …

Abstract 'Microsaurs' are traditionally considered to be lepospondyl non‐amniotes, but
recent analyses have recovered a subset of 'microsaurs', the fossorially adapted …

Since the early 1900s, researchers have attempted to unravel the origin and evolution of
tetrapod limb muscles using a combination of comparative anatomy, phylogeny, and …