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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

In Our Time: Science

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How Did We Discover Early Tetrapods?

Jenny Clack was an absolute legend in the field even for people like me that came up studying dinosaurs and things that were very far away from fish. Stan Wood who was not an academic Jenny was a professor at Cambridge. And he discovered a lot of these carboniferous age tetrapods in Scotland, the ones that were living right after the Devonian. There's two things I'd like to mention for the developments, where next with this stuff. The impact to the end of only an extinction is still being explored. We've got perhaps 25 million years of swamp beasts that we haven't sampled yet. Now, there may be low abundance, but there's plenty more work to do

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