Why did the first land animals crawl out of the water?

It was another 30 million years before those prehistoric fish crawled out of the water and began the evolutionary lineage we sit atop today. To understand life as ... days out of water. But all of these are only glimpses at how the first tetrapods began, as none of these animals has fully adapted to life on land. read more

Land offered many advantages to the first land animals, which were probably arthropods. You could hide from predators on land. You could lay your eggs there without anyone eating them. read more

Their pair of dextrous and muscular leg-like pectoral fins enable them to crawl over the mud - and to even climb trees. Mudskippers are common on tidal mudflats throughout tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia where they crawl about out of water feeding on small animals - particularly flies and small crabs - as well as algae. read more

6. The first steps from sea to land; 7. The land turns green; 8. Insects and other creepy crawlies; 9. The first tetrapods; 10. Rising fast: the first trees; Before the Cataclysm. Creation in six days; The antediluvian world; Antediluvian fauna and flora; The old world destroyed. 1. The birth of the solar system; 2. A highly disturbed childhood; 3. Chondritic meteorites; 4. read more