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

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

Fossilized footprints discovered in Victoria, Australia, are rewriting reptile evolutionary history. Dating back 359 million ...

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

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

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

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

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 ...

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

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...