This early tetrapod from the side of the road in Clinton ... that early limbed animals were actually pretty much fish with limbs. NS: There's another important evolutionary point here.

Clearly, the answer to both of these questions is no. Why, then, does a statement like "tetrapods evolved from fish" seem reasonable at first glance? "Tetrapods evolved from fish" might be ...

Because all later land vertebrates, or tetrapods, can be traced back to a fish. This encompasses not only amphibians, reptiles and birds, but also mammals—humans included. Yet one mystery ...

The transition from these lobe-fins to the earliest tetrapods -- four-legged animals that walked on land -- has long been of intense interest to biologists. Many of the most telling fossils have ...

Lobe-finned fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to tetrapods than to ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), which make up about 99% of the known fish species. Tetrapods include birds, ...

Broussard, D., Daeschler, T., Trop, J.M., 2018, Detrital chronostratigraphic constraints on upper Devonian tetrapod and fish assemblages in Catskill Formation sites of north-central Pennsylvania: ...