Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase. Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
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Trechos de apoio da pauta: For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely aquatic tadpoles and then metamorphosing into terrestrial adults. “A lot of that comes from this old ‘scala naturae’ idea that you had fish that evolved into the next stage up, which were amphibians, and then amphibians evolved into the next stage up, which were reptiles that evolved into birds and mammals,” said Jason Pardo, a research associate at the Field Museum.
- Ponto de atenção: early.
- Ponto de atenção: land.
- Ponto de atenção: animals.
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