In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some attention for creatures who aren’t exactly panda-cute. Th ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 ... Ichthyostega clearly spent some time out of water. From these finds, it now appears that the four legs common ...

If so, it changes our view of the evolution of tetrapods ... into a bone in the tetrapod’s middle ear. A fish that hauled itself out of the water on its fleshy fins, for reasons we can only ...