One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

Fish could gulp air at surface and force air into lungs, using buccal pump or by gulping air and diving head first, letting air rise and pass into the lungs. Land animals couldn’t use passive method ...

the first true jawed fish, reached no great size during the Silurian, they were on their way to becoming one of the planet's top predators. Creepy-crawlies also began to appear on land.

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...

While most people associate fish with swimming in water, some extraordinary species have developed the ability to walk or ...

These robots will be inspired by the body structures and movement styles of ancient fish ... one of life’s greatest evolutionary marvels: the first steps taken from water to land.