Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
📍 How it ended
{ "epilogue": "Newly examined 300-million-year-old fossils and specimens collected over decades challenged traditional assumptions about how early vertebrates moved from water to land. Researchers concluded that Earth's first land animals may have skipped the tadpole phase entirely.
The coverage quieted as scientists reassessed the evolutionary history of these ancient predators." }
Epilogue added 1h ago, after coverage quieted.
The story so far
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Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase Ars Technica · 97d ago broke it first
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