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 ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

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 ...

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, ...

The find dramatically shifts the timeline for reptile evolution, previously believed to have begun in the Northern Hemisphere ...

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