Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

According to Professor John Long from Flinders University, these imprints challenge the traditional view of reptile evolution ...

Throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth, there have been some pretty strange creatures. If you tried to make a ...

New fossil tracks found in Australia may rewrite everything we thought we knew about animals’ move from sea to land.

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

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...