Out
of the Swamps
How early vertebrates established a foothold—with all 10
toes—on land
Paleontologists have found the
earliest known vertebrate adapted to life on land.
References:
Paton, R.L., T.R. Smithson, and J.A. Clack. 1999. An amniote-like
skeleton from the early Carboniferous of Scotland. Nature 398(April
8):508.
Further Readings:
Ahlberg, P.E., and A.R. Milner. 1994. The origin and early diversification
of tetrapods. Nature 368(April 7):507.
Daeschler, E.B., and N. Shubin. 1998. Fish with fingers? Nature
391(Jan. 8):133.
Zimmer, C. 1998. At the Water's Edge. New York: Free Press.
Sources:
Robert L. Carroll
McGill University
Redpath Museum
859 Sherbrooke Street
West Montreal, PQ H3A 2K6
Canada
Jennifer Clack
University of Cambridge
University Museum of Zoology
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3EJ
United Kingdom
Michael I. Coates
University College London
Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Building
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Edward B. Daeschler
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Vertebrate Biology
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Neil Shubin
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Biology
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tim R. Smithson
Cambridge Regional College
Kings Hedges Road
Cambridge CB4 2QT
United Kingdom
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 21, May 22, 1999, p. 328.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
