Links to interesting videos illustrating some of the organisms and processes related to this chapter, updated on a regular basis.
Amniotes (Amniota): The Timetree of Life
http://www.timetree.org/public/data/pdf/Shedlock2009Chap52.pdf
The First Tetrapods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv2lw1NlKgU
Early Amphibians of the Paleozoic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3cgMqp5vuQ
Raising Bichirs on Land Causes Muscular and Skeletal Changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxRe0hAQmg
These Skates Are Made for Walking: A fish that scurries along the seafloor uses the same neurons and genes that help land vertebrates walk
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/science/skate-walking-fish-evolution.html
Tiktaalik, a transitional tetrapod fossil
The origin of four-legged animals, HHMI Biointeractive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK8XGEDcTfo
Your Inner Fish – Episode 1, Your Inner Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ttoKGxEKc
The Evolution of Limbs from Fins, Neil Shubin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MorhQ5uSug4
Closing Romer’s Gap: The Story so Far, National Museums of Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/natural-world/closing-romers-gap?item_id