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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Before this study, the earliest known amniote fossils had been found in Nova Scotia, Canada, and were dated to the mid-Carboniferous period, about 319 million years ago. The latest findings ...