Their appearance pushes back amniotes evolution by 35-40 million years. Between 359 and 350 million years ago, it rained.

A sandstone slab discovered in the Snowy Plains Formation, located in the Mansfield Basin of southeast Australia, preserves ...

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

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

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

The discovery suggests that reptiles originated in the Devonian, and survived the mass extinctions at its end.

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 ...

Tracks in Australia seem to be the earliest known prints of amniotes — a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.