New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

A single track-bearing slab calls into question everything we thought we knew about when modern tetrapods evolved.' ...

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

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.