By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

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

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

Fossil suggests four-legged tetrapods transitioned from ocean to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought.

A new discovery is rewriting the history of evolution by millions of years - The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

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

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...