But the electronics network, Engadget reported that the company that makes these robot " dogs" was trying to develop a similar quadruped at a price point of $1,500.
Whitney said it was the top " predator of its environment that included different kinds of ancient fish and sharks as well as other, smaller early tetrapods."
(And just in case you aren't familiar, tetrapods are four-limbed vertebrates that include amphibians, mammals, birds and reptiles.) That's at least 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.
And then tetrapods evolved from fish and began adapting to living outside of the water part-time, initially gulping air and absorbing oxygen in the gut.
They were able to piece together evidence that the last common ancestor of all lungfish and tetrapods started vocalizing more than 400 million years ago.
It also stated that acoustic communication evolved independently in most major tetrapod groups, with origins in the range of 100 million to 200 million years ago.