Preteen tetrapods identified by bone scans

Improved technique suggests large four-limbed Acanthostega were still juveniles

Acanthostega

ANCIENT YOUNGSTERS  Water-dwelling Acanthostega (museum imagining of full form shown) may have been hanging out in schools of youngsters 360 million years ago.

 

 

Photo courtesy of Jennifer Clack

Better bone scanning of fossils offers a glimpse of preteen life some 360 million years ago.