Fossil skull sheds new light on transition from water to land
16 March 2015The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists.
The first 3D reconstruction of the skull of a 360 million-year-old near-ancestor of land vertebrates has been created by scientists.
Early tetrapod primarily used front limbs to move and its back limbs for balance.
Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises their exceptional contributions to society. As Fellows of the UK's national academy of science, these leaders in the fields of science, engineering and medicine join other famous Cambridge names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.
Professor Jennifer Clackâs research into one of the major events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth has been honoured by the National Academy of Sciences.