Australian scientists' discovery of the continent's oldest known tree frog fossil, dating back 55 million years, reshapes ...

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

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

The sandstone slab was found by two amateur palaeontologists in Australia and carries well-preserved footprints of long-toed ...

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

But Mosura was different. Instead of the familiar streamlined body with flaps and claws, this little predator had something ...

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

A newly identified dinosaur has stirred attention among paleontologists worldwide. It lived about 94 million years ago, ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

A 165-million-year-old femur has been discovered in Morocco, the oldest cerapodan fossil ever found. It is a key find for ...

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

I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into ...