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International team sequence the world's largest animal genome: Data help explain tetrapod evolution
We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million ... Only three lineages of these closest relatives, the lungfish, are still alive today: one in Africa, one in South America and ...
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Largest animal genome sequenced — and just 1 chromosome is the size of the entire human genome
Lungfish are sometimes called "living fossils ... limbs and crawled onto land around 370 million years ago during the Devonian period, (419 million to 359 million years ago), Science reported.
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A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii) (IMAGE)
the lungfish Isityumzi mlomomde, and a cyrtoctenid eurypterid. Painting by Maggie Newman, copyright R. W. Gess. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...
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Phylogeny and geological time ranges of the sarcopterygian lineages leading to modern coelacanths, lungfish and tetrapods (IMAGE)
Thus, both the coelacanth-rhipidistian and lungfish-tetrapod splits should have occurred sometime during the interval from Ludlow to Lochkovian, which means that the minimal estimated time for two ...
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Fossil fish collection
Collected by Harry Toombs in the 1960s from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation of western Australia. Fossil taxa include lungfish and other sarcopterygians, a variety of placoderms and actinopterygians.