Forty years ago an amateur Scottish paleontologist named Stan Wood made a fascinating discovery, uncovering Westlothiana ...

More information: Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08884-5 Provided by Uppsala University ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

Tetrapods' old age revealed. Newly discovered tetrapod footprints suggest that the evolution of limbed vertebrates may have occurred nearly 20 million years earlier than scientists previously believed ...

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. By analysing fossil skulls of animals across the ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known set of reptile footprints.Craig A. Eury and John Eason, two amateur ...

Tetrapod Limbs: If you want to see concrete evidence of evolution, look no further than your hand or your foot. Five fingers, five toes. There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits ...

While the global story of tetrapod evolution is based largely on data from fossils found in North America and Europe, Dr. Pardo said, the discovery of Gaiasia highlights the importance of studying ...

More information: Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08884-5 Journal information: Nature ...

Tetrapod Limbs: If you want to see concrete evidence of evolution, look no further than your hand or your foot. Five fingers, five toes. There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published this week in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for ...