Science
Lungfish fins reveal how limbs evolved – EurekAlert
New research on the fin development of the Australian lungfish by an international team of researchers from the University of Konstanz (Germany), Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (Italy) elucidates ho…
The evolution of limbs with functional digits from fish fins happened approximately 400 million years ago in the Devonian. This morphological transition allowed vertebrates to leave the water to conquer land and gave rise to all four-legged animals or tetrapods – the evolutionary lineage that includes all amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals (including humans). Since the nineteenth century several theories based on both fossils and embryos have been put forward trying to explain how this tran…
-
Noosa News19 hours agoDangerous storm pounds south-east Queensland with giant hail, blackouts and widespread damage
-
Noosa News22 hours agoBruce Highway fatal: Grandmother’s heartbreak as daughter and granddaughter killed in Queensland truck crash
-
Noosa News22 hours agoPassenger footage of Sea World helicopters colliding
-
General10 hours agoXi Jinping tells Donald Trump Taiwan’s ‘return to China’ is key to international post-war order