The ability to live underground is widespread among continental vertebrates, so
understanding the origin and early evolution of fossorial vertebrates and the architecture …

The simplification of the tetrapod skull occurred convergently in various tetrapod lineages
from the Devonian into the Mesozoic, leading to some groups (eg lissamphibians) to retain …

The unique body plan of frogs (Lissamphibia: Anura) has been largely conserved from at
least 200 Myr, and its evolution from a more generalized tetrapod condition is still poorly …

The lissamphibian clade Gymnophiona includes approximately 220 recognized modern
species known by the English vernacular as caecilians and characterized by their elongated …

Limbs are a defining characteristic of tetrapods, yet numerous taxa, primarily among
amphibians and reptiles, have independently lost limbs as an adaptation to new ecological …

Anisodontosaurus greeri is an enigmatic small-bodied tetrapod with a heterodont dentition
from the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of Arizona (USA) …

Stereospondyls underwent a global radiation in the Early Triassic, including an abundance
of small-bodied taxa, which are otherwise rare throughout the Mesozoic. Lapillopsidae is …

Highlights•Some amphibians and sarcopterygians possess giant genomes reaching tens of
gigabases.•Several of these genomes were recently sequenced and found to harbor an …

The description of the small Late Triassic temnospondyl Chinlestegophis ushered in a
potentially radically new understanding of the origins of the extant amphibian clades …

Palacrodon, a near-crown stem reptile, is known from several Triassic sites across the globe,
and is easily recognized by its dentition characterized by labiolingually expanded …