One of the most asked about questions I’ve encountered in tetrapod zoology concerns the mysterious seals of Siberia’s Lake Baikal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
It's because all land vertebrates descended with modification from a four-legged ( "tetrapod") ancestor. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. News] Reference
The footprints date back 395 million years and are about 18 million years older than the oldest known "tetrapod" fossil. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Should Tiktaalik be classified as a tetrapod?. From Wordnik.com. [Yet more desperation at the DI - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
More to come, and back to proper tetrapod zoology soon. From Wordnik.com. [Toys toys toys] Reference
It has a mixture of fish, tetrapod, and "fishapod" traits. From Wordnik.com. [Supporting Atheists As Anti-Oppression Work] Reference
If only books like this existed on all the tetrapod groups. From Wordnik.com. [Those sexy tupuxuarids] Reference
My adult education course on tetrapod evolution started this week. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
They are not intermediates in the sense that they are half-fish/half-tetrapod. From Wordnik.com. [Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
So arthropod and tetrapod legs are analogous, rather than homologous, structures. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual] Reference
Rather, they have a combination of tetrapod-like features and fish-like features. From Wordnik.com. [Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The pectoral skeleton of Tiktaalik is transitional between fish fin and tetrapod limb. From Wordnik.com. [Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Once a tetrapod is known to exist at time x, it could not have first evolved afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
No, here's the new picture of tetrapod evolution that Niedzwiedzki and others have drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Neoceratodus is of a lineage of particular interest to questions about tetrapod evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Lungfish update - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
They are not intermediates in the sense that have half-fish/half-tetrapod characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And yet it is the exact same argument that you quoted them as using for tetrapod evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Is there one for each major body plan (tetrapod, insect, etc.), organs, immune systems, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference
Behavior in the field and laboratory of the new volant tetrapod Teenteea keganpaulorum Keel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
One of the earliest terrestrial tetrapod faunas known in the world is from Joggins, Nova Scotia. From Wordnik.com. [Paleozoic] Reference
The new model is that the tetrapod pattern is conserved and the actinopterygian pattern is novel. From Wordnik.com. [Ancestral Expression Patterns] Reference
Mammals are the only surviving members of a far larger and more diverse tetrapod clade, Synapsida. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
It is actually very difficult to imagine a tetrapod MORE unlike a plesiosaur than is Cadborosaurus. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Moreover, the shoulder girdle is more tetrapod-like than any other known fish, except maybe Panderichthys. From Wordnik.com. [Tiktaalik makes another gap - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Per Ahlberg makes an appearance in a video to talk about the size and significance of the mystery tetrapod. From Wordnik.com. [Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
If you read the linked post, you can see that Gogonasus in the old position is still in the tetrapod lineage. From Wordnik.com. [Gogonasus andrewsae - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In terms of shape and discrete morphological characters, Tiktaalik is way more tetrapod-like than Saurpiterus. From Wordnik.com. [Tiktaalik makes another gap - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
As best I can tell, this data only supports front loading if one focuses exclusively on tetrapod limbs and HoxD. From Wordnik.com. [Ancestral Expression Patterns] Reference
The disposition of distal radials in Panderichthys are much more tetrapod-like than in Tiktaalik, Boisvert wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: Scientific Vacuity Archives] Reference
Shubin NH, Daeschler EB, Jenkins FA 2006 The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Shubin, Daeschler & Jenkins, The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb, Nature 2005. From Wordnik.com. [A Disclaimer for Behe?] Reference
Daeschler EB, Shubin NH, Jenkins FA 2006 A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
There are several lineages of sarcopterygian fish that developed tetrapod like adaptations according to evolutionists. From Wordnik.com. [Gogonasus andrewsae - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The individual bones of the fin and girdle skeleton of Sauripterus are not very tetrapod-like when one looks at Tiktaalik. From Wordnik.com. [Tiktaalik makes another gap - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The "fish-tetrapod transition" was characterized by a panoply of competing adaptations, each struggling to outdo the others. From Wordnik.com. [BETWEEN SWIMMING AND CRAWLING] Reference
The fossil tetrapod footprints indicate Tiktaalik came over 10 million years after the existence of the first known true tetrapod. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
They knew that Tiktaalik was representative of tetrapod development and radiation by studying the morphology of its fossilized bones. From Wordnik.com. [Trollart on Tiktaalik - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
However, Gogonasus may have evolved its tetrapod-like features independently of the first fishes to crawl out of water onto land, she says. From Wordnik.com. [Gogonasus andrewsae - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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