Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great evolutionary change that gave rise to all the land animals on Earth with a backbone, when some fish developed limbs, lungs and necks. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

One of the best-documented evolutionary transitions is the appearance of tetrapods, the four-limbed vertebrates that now dominate the land. A large series of “fishapod” fossils have been discovered ...

A study of the jaws of one of the earliest known limbed vertebrates shows the species still fed underwater, not on land. Tetrapods -- the four-legged limbed vertebrates -- evolved from fish and ...

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct ...

The evolutionary transition from fish to air-breathing, four-legged land vertebrates, or tetrapods, is a fascinating segment of vertebrate evolution. It is increasingly well documented by fossils ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

Described as "the missing evolutionary link in the fish to tetrapod transition," a fascinating Canadian fossil reveals an ancient fish species with arm, hand and finger bones similar to our own, ...

Scientists have long believed the human hand evolved from an ancient, four-limbed creature, but this creepy fossil finding begs to differ. The discovery of an ancient fish fossil in Canada reveals how ...

20 curious facts about the story of how our distant ancestors made the transition from water to land In 1999, paleontologist Per Ahlberg, sifting through an old museum drawer, discovered a fragment of ...

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

How did fish evolve into four-legged beasts that roam the land? A key part of that mystery has been solved by fossils found on a Nova Scotia beach. Tetrapods, named for their four limbs, are fish-like ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Earth. Around 400 million years ago some of our ancestors, the fish, started to become a little more like humans.