Who was Jennifer Alice Clack?
Q: Who was Jennifer Alice Clack?
A: Jennifer Alice Clack was an English palaeontologist. She was curator at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Cambridge University.
Q: What did she study?
A: She devoted her career to studying the early evolution of tetrapods.
Q: What is a "fishapod"?
A: A "fishapod" is a term adopted by Clack to describe transitional fossils that evolved from lobe-finned fish in the Devonian period into tetrapods.
Q: Where did these animals colonize?
A: These animals colonized the freshwater swamps of the Carboniferous period.
Q: When was Jennifer Alice Clack born?
A: Jennifer Alice Clack was born on 3 November 1947.
Q: When did she pass away?
A: She passed away on 26 March 2020.
