Clack is curator at the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Cambridge University , where she has devoted her career to studying the early development of tetrapods , the `` four-legged '' animals said to have evolved from Devonian lobe-finned fishes and colonized the freshwater swamps of the Carboniferous period .
She is curator at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology , and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Cambridge University .