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

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

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including ...

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

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

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 ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the first truly terrestrial vertebrates. Some of these animals, known as the ...

The discovery of the earliest reptile footprints - dating back 355 million years - could rewrite the timeline of evolution, ...

Did the first modern tetrapods, our own distant ancestors, emerge in the temperate Devonian landscapes of southern Gondwana, ...