Vertebrate Life 10e Chapter 10 Video Links

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

https://mpbn.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evol07.sci.life.evo.fossilev/transitional-tetrapod-fossil/?#.WiWa-Etrwo8 

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

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