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Radio 4,1 min

One tiny step for tetrapods, one giant leap for vertebrates

The Life Scientific

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Nick Fraser describes how palaeontologists working on the Tw:eed project found an ancient amphibian that’s one of the earliest known examples of a four-limbed animal with a back bone to live on land. It may even have had five fingers. Image: © Karen Carr Studios

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