Fossil skull sheds new light on transition from water to land
16 March 2015The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists.
Reassembling the backbone of life using a particle accelerator
14 January 2013New research shows for the first time the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone in the earliest four-legged animals (tetrapods).
3D model reveals how ancient creature got around
24 May 2012Early tetrapod primarily used front limbs to move and its back limbs for balance.
From fins to limbs
11 April 2012Tonight Cambridge vertebrate palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack is the subject of BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds series. The programme looks at her contribution to our understanding of early tetrapods - the first four-legged creatures to walk on earth.
