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

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

Tracks in Australia seem to be the earliest known prints of amniotes — a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.

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

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast Australia appear to be from an amniote, most likely a reptile.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

Before this study, the earliest known amniote fossils had been found in Nova Scotia, Canada, and were dated to the mid-Carboniferous period ... of reptiles but not of amphibians.