{"id":6549,"date":"2018-12-19T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2019-01-28T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:00:26","slug":"ritter-confirms-early-branching-on-vertebrates-fins-to-limbs-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ritter-confirms-early-branching-on-vertebrates-fins-to-limbs-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Critter confirms early branching on vertebrates\u2019 fins-to-limbs family tree "},"content":{"rendered":"

Royal Society Open Science<\/em><\/a>
\nPublished\u00a0December 19, 2018 17:01 ET<\/strong> (Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)
\nA\u00efstopods are a highly specialized group of eel-like legless early tetrapods, four-legged vertebrates, and diverged from the tetrapod family tree early on. This study reports a jaw believed to belong to an a\u00efstopod that lived some 310 million years ago \u2013 the early Carboniferous Period \u2013 near what is now Joggins, NS. The jaw preserves primitive characteristics not seen in more advanced a\u00efstopods, providing more evidence these animals branched away early from tetrapods\u2019 fin-to-limb transition.<\/p>\n

Lead author: <\/strong>Jason Pardo, University of Calgary –\u00a0<\/a>jdpardo@ucalgary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Royal Society Open Science Published\u00a0December 19, 2018 17:01 ET (Brief from the Royal Society) A\u00efstopods are a highly specialized group of eel-like legless early tetrapods, four-legged vertebrates, and diverged from the tetrapod family tree early on. This study reports a jaw believed to belong to an a\u00efstopod that lived some 310 million years ago \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1HD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}