Problem was how to get the air into the lungs. Fish could gulp air at surface and force air into lungs, using buccal pump or by gulping air and diving head first, letting air rise and pass into the ...

Studying its fossilized remains can provide new insights into how key traits for life on land ... created unique problems for animals that were moving out of water and onto land for the very ...

A new study has discovered how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to ... plants solved this problem that they had to figure out very early in the ...

The earliest large life forms may have appeared ... Sponsor Message "I don't have any problem with early evolution being primarily on land," says Knauth, a professor in the School of Earth and ...

Their mission? To scour the Late Devonian rocks for clues about one of the most important events in natural history: the transition of vertebrate life from water to land. They were looking ...

"The transition from life in water to life on land was going both ways," Shubin said. Qikiqtania is a vivid counterexample to the long-debunked, yet enduring myth that evolution is a linear ...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on land. The study, published in Science, highlights how a gene transfer ...

PELENG ISLAND, Indonesia — Leaving her hut that hovered on stilts above crystal blue water, Zausiyah got into her boat at sunrise and rowed out to sea, looking down into the clear water for fish.

The problem with fossil soils is that they are ... Jane Gray’s advocacy of land life in the relatively recent Ordovician period (485 million to 443 million years ago), once seen as off-the ...

Indonesia’s Bajo people, who once spent most of their lives in boats or offshore huts, are adopting more sedentary habits, but without forsaking their deep connection to the sea. A Bajo ...