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An important step towards understanding the evolution of terrestriality in vertebrates is to
identify how the aquatic ancestors of tetrapods were able to access ground-based prey. We …

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© 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved increasing fishing pressure on
juveniles is smart or sustainable, says Carl Walters of the University of British Columbia in …

[illus. 1] For centuries, the Canadian Grand Banks, off the coast of Newfoundland, were
prime fishing grounds. The region's abundance of Atlantic cod (< pres: italics> Gadus …

Jack Tseng at the University at Buffalo in New York uses 3D scans to simulate stress
patterns during biting, in skulls from fossils and extant species. Here, Tseng holds a 3D print …

THE fossil record has been both a burden and a blessing to evolutionary biologists–a
blessing because the stratigraphical order in which fossils are arrayed provides broad proof …

The bony fishes gave rise to two living subgroups, the ray-finned fishes, and the lobe-fins
and tetrapods (or land vertebrates, including ourselves). An analysis of the evolutionary …

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