A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...

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

Amniotes represent a crucial part of the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life because they were the only tetrapods, or ...

The Sulawesi coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ), meanwhile, remained undiscovered until scientists came across one at a ...

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

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient ...

Scorpions, ancient arachnids with a 400-million-year history, inhabit diverse environments worldwide, showcasing remarkable ...

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

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

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, ...

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...