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kiraIn the fall we rented bicycles and rode along the Baltic Spit <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Sea?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sea</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Pier?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pier</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CalmWater?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CalmWater</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Clouds?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clouds</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tetrapods?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tetrapods</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ConcretePavement?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConcretePavement</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/OceanView?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OceanView</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CoastalBeauty?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoastalBeauty</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/beachvibes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beachvibes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Waves?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waves</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Seaside?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seaside</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SereneLandscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SereneLandscape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NaturePhotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Seascape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seascape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tranquil?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tranquil</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺300 million-year-old tail print shows that scales evolved earlier than expected <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/scales-helped-reptiles-conquer-the-land-when-did-they-first-evolve/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/scales-helped-reptiles-conquer-the-land-when-did-they-first-evolve/</a>A diadectid skin impression and its implications for the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0041" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0041</a>"the epidermal scales in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/diadectids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diadectids</a> and other terrestrial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> prevented the evaporation of water from their bodies, which may have helped them survive the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/desert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#desert</a> climate that prevailed on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Pangea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pangea</a> during the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Permian</a>"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺380-Million-Year-Old <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> of Air-Breathing Tetrapod <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fish</a> Found in Australia <a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/harajicadectes-zhumini-12661.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sci.news/paleontology/harajicadectes-zhumini-12661.html</a>A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Tetrapodomorpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tetrapodomorpha</a> comprises the limbed tetrapods and their closest fish relatives.. The group diversified greatly in both marine and freshwater habitats during the Middle-to-Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> while giving rise to several distinct lineages, including the earliest limbed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>."

llewelly<a href="https://sauropods.win/@Himmapaan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Himmapaan</a> , Marc Vincent, and Niels Hazborg released a new episode of the wonderful podcast Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs:<a href="https://chasmosaurs.com/2023/12/30/podcast-show-notes-episode-30-tetzoocon-on-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chasmosaurs.com/2023/12/30/podcast-show-notes-episode-30-tetzoocon-on-ice/</a>it is all about tetzoocon, the convention run by <a href="https://sauropods.win/@john" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@john</a> and <a href="https://sauropods.win/@TetZoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TetZoo</a><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/tetzoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetzoo</a>

pedestrian cyclistI'm not sure if I'm misremembering it, but wasn't there a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/99pi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#99pi</a> episode on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>? Or was it a different podcast? :-?

JohannesWho were the first proponents of the water-to-land transition of vertebrates? Did the idea that tetrapods originate from fish precede the discovery of transition fossils? Were the discussions on land-to-water (e.g. ichthyosaurs origin) and water-to-land transitions contemporary? I’m trying to place some late 18th/early 19th century science writing into context, but have no background in the history of science.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historyofscience</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a>

teledyn 𓂀Well, apparently there were invertebrates to feed on, and they left marks too: <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/sobearwolf/723754458869334016?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/sobearwolf/723754458869334016?source=share</a> >I just saw something that looks very mundane but is extremely rare and incredible…<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/badjoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#badjoke</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/sorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sorry</a>

John Orcutt<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilAdventCalendar</a> Day 24Our journey <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/north" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#north</a> ends with one of the most important <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Nunavut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nunavut</a> 🇨🇦, has an <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Inuktitut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inuktitut</a> name (meaning "large freshwater <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a>"), and records an important <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolutionary</a> transition, this time from <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sea</a> to <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#land</a>. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Tiktaalik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tiktaalik</a> shares traits with both fish and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>, making it a close relative of all of us land-living <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/vertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vertebrates</a>. This replica and model are from the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CanadianMuseumOfNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadianMuseumOfNature</a>.

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time' <a href="https://www.livescience.com/tetrapod-predator-growth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.livescience.com/tetrapod-predator-growth</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossil</a> bone <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histology</a> reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04079-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04079-0</a> Early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/whatcheeriads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatcheeriads</a> were related to modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reptiles</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amphibians</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mammals</a> but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Whatcheeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whatcheeria</a> was really unexpected.

DinoDadReviewsMoving up in age range a bit, <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/OutOfTheBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OutOfTheBlue</a> can be thought of as a spiritual successor to <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/GrandmotherFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrandmotherFish</a>. It similarly seeks to educate it readers on the basics of <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> & <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Phylogeny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phylogeny</a>, but is pitched at a slightly older audience, and focuses a little more on the origin of <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>. <a href="https://dinodadreviews.com/2021/05/07/out-of-the-blue/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dinodadreviews.com/2021/05/07/out-of-the-blue/</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods <a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-bone-reveals-rapid-juvenile.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-bone-reveals-rapid-juvenile.html</a>It was long thought that these early animals (ancestors of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amphibians</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reptiles</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mammals</a>) grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/salamander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#salamander</a>... <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Whatcheeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Whatcheeria</a>'s elevated growth rates as a juvenile shows us that maybe slow and steady growth is not actually the ancestral condition for all <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>.

Lachlan HartMy <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastodon</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> : I'm Lachlan. I'm a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Museum (where I am also a technical officer in <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palaeontology</a> ). I study <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/temnospondyls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#temnospondyls</a> , fossil <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/crocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crocs</a> and other <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>. I am a former primary school <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teacher</a> and am a proud dad to 4 boys. Here's a photo of <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Eryops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eryops</a> that I took at the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/ROM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ROM</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Toronto</a> at <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/SVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SVP</a> 2 weeks ago.

Massimo Luciani<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QikiqtaniaWakei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QikiqtaniaWakei</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TiktaalikRoseae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TiktaalikRoseae</a> An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the identification of a precursor of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a> that lived on today's Ellesmere Island, in Canada, in the Devonian period, about 375 million years ago. A team of researchers named it <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Qikiqtania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qikiqtania</a> wakei and illustrated similarities and differences with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tiktaalik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tiktaalik</a> roseae.<a href="https://english.netmassimo.com/2022/08/04/qikiqtania-wakei-was-a-precursor-of-tetrapods-with-adaptations-to-life-on-the-mainland-and-back-to-the-water/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://english.netmassimo.com/2022/08/04/qikiqtania-wakei-was-a-precursor-of-tetrapods-with-adaptations-to-life-on-the-mainland-and-back-to-the-water/</a>

Massimo Luciani<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anatomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anatomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports a study on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> of the forelimbs' skeleton and muscles in the transition from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>. <a href="https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/01/27/a-reconstruction-of-the-evolution-of-the-forelimbs-of-early-tetrapods/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/01/27/a-reconstruction-of-the-evolution-of-the-forelimbs-of-early-tetrapods/</a>

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