Fossil suggests four-legged tetrapods transitioned from ocean to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought.

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have ...

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

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

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

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 ...

A new discovery is rewriting the history of evolution by millions of years - The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its small claws ...

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