There are a small number of fish species, both marine and freshwater, that exhibit a truly
amphibious habit that includes periods of aerial exposure. The duration of emersion is …

Amphibious fishes spend part of their life in terrestrial habitats. The ability to tolerate life on
land has evolved independently many times, with more than 200 extant species of …

Lungfishes are the closest extant relatives of tetrapods and preserve ancestral traits linked
with the water-to-land transition. However, their huge genome sizes have hindered …

Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable
their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of …

Rich fossil evidence suggests that many traits and functions related to terrestrial evolution
were present long before the ancestor of lobe-and ray-finned fishes. Here, we present …

Amphibian reproductive modes (RMs) have been extensively described and applied to
amphibian biology studies. However, due to new behavioural observations and past system …

The phylogenetic relationships among deuterostome animals have been debated for many
years, and a diversity of hypotheses have been proposed based on both morphological and …

Evolutionary transitions to marine habitats occurred frequently among Mesozoic reptiles.
Only one such clade survives to the present: sea turtles (Chelonioidea). Other marine turtles …

The evolution of terrestrial vertebrates, starting around 385 million years ago, is an iconic
moment in evolution that brings to mind images of fish transforming into four-legged animals …

The Gobiiformes is one of the most diverse orders of the Percomorphs, with approximately
2000 species in 270 genera. They represent 5 to 10% of all teleosts, with species occurring …