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Nature 437, 38-39 (1 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437038a; Published online 31 August 2005
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Palaeontology: Between water and land
Robert L. Carroll1
Abstract
The most informative examples of large-scale evolution are provided by major transitions between environments. Fresh research on an ancient amphibian shows how it adapted to locomotion both in water and on land.
One of the defining events in the history of life was the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates from early fish. The oldest known fossils that illustrate the transition to land are those of Ichthyostega from the Upper Devonian of East Greenland.
- Robert L. Carroll is at the Redpath Museum, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada.
Email: robert.carroll@mcgill.ca
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