Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world.

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

A newly described species from the Burgess Shale had three eyes, clawed limbs, and a tail full of gills—plus internal organs ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast Australia appear to be from an amniote, most likely a reptile.

First described in 1979 by scientist Nico Dippenaar, the shrew was recognised as a unique subspecies, geographically isolated ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...