Why Did Life Move to Land?

Why Did Life Move to Land?
James Orr/NOAA Fisheries/Alaska Fisheries Science Center via AP

Life on Earth began in the water. So when the first animals moved onto land, they had to trade their fins for limbs, and their gills for lungs, the better to adapt to their new terrestrial environment.

A new study, out today, suggests that the shift to lungs and limbs doesn't tell the full story of these creatures' transformation.

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