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<h2>Amphibians</h2> <p>Many amphibians, like many fish and insects, were vertebrates, and are all under the Subphylum taxon Vertebrata.</p> <p>Amphibians are typically characterised by their incomplete transition from water to land. They are a class of organism that typically inhabits coastal areas or surrounding aquatic environments.</p> <p>Obtaining air outside an aquatic environment required species to have suited adaptations, and this was the case of amphibians, many of which contain both gills and lungs for aquatic and above water respiration.</p> <p>An interesting note to take about amphibians is that the typical life cycle of one involves a transition from water to land, just like the overall transition amphibians took as a collective many years ago</p> <ol><li>The common frog spawns its eggs with the help of plants in the aquatic environment </li> <li>These young eggs develop into adults, and head towards land </li> <li>The adolescent frog moves to land </li> <li>When reaching sexual maturity, the adult returns to water to spawn eggs, as in step 1</li> </ol><p>So basically, the entire evolutionary emergence of amphibians is re-acted again and again in each successful generation of amphibian species - like the frog.</p> <h2>Early Reptiles</h2> <p>The amphibians never quite made it on to land, but reptiles did. One of the main reasons for this is the two evolutionary adaptations developed by the common early reptile, waterproof skin a shelled eggs (containing their young). Also, although reptiles were cold blooded just like their amphibian ancestors, they were able to adapt to the warmer, dryer environments found on dry land.</p> <p>With this sole advantage at hand, they were provided a gateway to further diversify and occupy the habitats of dry land. At the time, it is important to note that other animals and plants were succeeding in occupying land, and thus provided a framework for the early reptiles to exist within.</p> <h2>Competition / Co-Operation</h2> <p>Although reptiles were occupying bold new environments (land / shore and sea), a degree of co-operation and competition would ensure that they would survive and prosper as a collective in the long term. No other type of animal had successfully occupied land at this time.</p> <p>Through another perspective, biomass on land was low, because not many animals had became adaptive enough to survive on land. With this in hand, many reptiles were herbivores, taking advantage of the hydroseres and other plants available on land or shorelines.</p> <p>But as these organisms occupied land, when they died, the following would have happened, which would have helped life's chances of fully occupying land</p> <ol><li>The first reptiles and amphibians to tread land, and die on land would have broken down into simpler organic compounds </li> <li>This would have enriched the nutrients in the soil, allowing plants to grow, and micro-organisms to exist on a large scale </li> <li>Organisms who rely on the above would migrate to land, as would any other organism capable of existing in the growing habitat </li> <li>This continued ecosystem succession would inevitably allow land to support life on a scale similar to that of the sea </li> </ol><p>And indeed this was true. As the Triassic period came around, around 230 million years ago, the dinosaurs were emerging as the dominant force on land.</p>
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