Evolution of tetrapods | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:01:42 1 Origin
00:01:51 1.1 Evolution of fish
00:04:09 1.2 Lungs before land
00:06:17 1.3 The breath
00:07:56 1.4 External and internal nares
00:09:52 1.5 Into the shallows
00:11:26 1.6 Skull morphology
00:12:08 1.7 From fins to feet
00:14:39 1.8 Denizens of the swamp
00:16:22 2 Palaeozoic tetrapods
00:16:32 2.1 Devonian tetrapods
00:18:38 2.1.1 Excretion in tetrapods
00:20:50 2.1.2 Lungs
00:21:39 2.1.3 Fossils of early tetrapods
00:23:59 2.1.4 From water to land
00:24:29 2.2 Carboniferous tetrapods
00:27:42 2.2.1 Carboniferous rainforest collapse
00:30:32 2.3 Permian tetrapods
00:31:30 3 Mesozoic tetrapods
00:33:03 4 Cenozoic tetrapods
00:34:35 5 Extant (living) tetrapods



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The evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods (under the apomorphy-based definition used on this page) are categorized as animals in the biological superclass Tetrapoda, which includes all living and extinct amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. While most species today are terrestrial, little evidence supports the idea that any of the earliest tetrapods could move about on land, as their limbs could not have held their midsections off the ground and the known trackways do not indicate they dragged their bellies around. Presumably, the tracks were made by animals walking along the bottoms of shallow bodies of water. The specific aquatic ancestors of the tetrapods, and the process by which land colonization occurred, remain unclear, and are areas of active research and debate among palaeontologists at present.
Most amphibians today remain semiaquatic, living the first stage of their lives as fish-like tadpoles. Several groups of tetrapods, such as the snakes and cetaceans, have lost some or all of their limbs. In addition, many tetrapods have returned to partially aquatic or fully aquatic lives throughout the history of the group (modern examples of fully aquatic tetrapods include cetaceans and sirenians). The first returns to an aquatic lifestyle may have occurred as early as the Carboniferous Period whereas other returns occurred as recently as the Cenozoic, as in cetaceans, pinnipeds, and several modern amphibians.The change from a body plan for breathing and navigating in water to a body plan enabling the animal to move on land is one of the most profound evolutionary changes known. It is also one of the best understood, largely thanks to a number of significant transitional fossil finds in the late 20th century combined with improved phylogenetic analysis.