Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Palaeontology

A firm step from water to land

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

A project designed to discover fossils that illuminate the transition between fishes and land vertebrates has delivered the goods. At a stroke, our picture of that transition is greatly improved.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1: Tiktaalik in context.

References

  1. Daeschler, E. B., Shubin, N. H. & Jenkins, F. A. Jr, Nature 440, 757–763 (2006).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Shubin, N. H., Daeschler, E. B. & Jenkins, F. A. Jr Nature 440, 764–771 (2006).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Cope, E. D. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 30, 278–281 (1892).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Ahlberg, P. E. et al. Nature 437, 137–140 (2005).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Coates, M. I. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. Earth Sci. 87, 363–421 (1996).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Clack, J. A. Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods (Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, 2002).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Vorobyeva, E. I. & Schultze, H. -P. in Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods (eds Schultze, H.-P. & Trueb, L.) 68–109 (Comstock, Ithaca, 1991).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Vorobyeva, E. I. & Kuznetzov, A. in Fossil Fishes as Living Animals (ed. Mark-Kurik, E.) 131–140 (Inst. Geol., Tallinn, Estonia, 1992).

    Google Scholar 

  9. Ahlberg, P. E. Nature 373, 420–425 (1995).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Ahlberg, P. E. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 122, 99–141 (1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Westoll, T. S. Nature 141, 127–128 (1938).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. Schultze, H. -P. & Arsenault, M. Palaeontology 28, 293–309 (1985).

    Google Scholar 

  13. Boisvert, C. Nature 438, 1145–1147 (2005).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Brazeau, M. & Ahlberg, P. E. Nature 439, 318–321 (2006).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Ahlberg, P. E., Lukševičs, E. & Lebedev, O. A. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 343, 303–328 (1994).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. Jarvik, E. Basic Structure and Evolution of Vertebrates (Academic, New York, 1980).

    Google Scholar 

  17. Ahlberg, P. E. & Milner, A. R. Nature 368, 507–514 (1994).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. Gradstein, F. M. et al. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005).

    Book  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. the Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden

    Per Erik Ahlberg

  2. the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK

    Jennifer A. Clack

Authors
  1. Per Erik Ahlberg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jennifer A. Clack
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ahlberg, P., Clack, J. A firm step from water to land. Nature 440, 748–749 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440747a

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/440747a

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation