Secondarily aquatic tetrapods

Several clades of tetrapods have undergone secondary aquatic adaptation, an evolutionary transition from being purely terrestrial to living at least partly aquatic. These animals are called "secondarily aquatic" because although all tetrapods descended from freshwater lobe finned fish (see evolution of tetrapods), their more recent ancestors are terrestrial vertebrates that evolved on land for hundreds of millions of years, and their clades only re-adapted to aquatic environment much later.

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Secondarily aquatic tetrapods

Several clades of tetrapods have undergone secondary aquatic adaptation, an evolutionary transition from being purely terrestrial to living at least partly aquatic. These animals are called "secondarily aquatic" because although all tetrapods descended from freshwater lobe finned fish (see evolution of tetrapods), their more recent ancestors are terrestrial vertebrates that evolved on land for hundreds of millions of years, and their clades only re-adapted to aquatic environment much later.

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