Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia ... The story of the origin of tetrapods began with fishes leaving the water, and ended with the descendants of these first colonists ...

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

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

As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett ...

John Long, Flinders University; Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, Uppsala University, and Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University ...

Footprints in Poland dating to about 390 million ... the first vertebrates to lay eggs on land and thus finally break free of the water, cleaved into two lineages, one leading to reptiles and ...

The footprints skitter across a block of sandstone ... laying their eggs in water. The amniotes, laying eggs on land, came later and branched into many creatures, including reptiles, birds and ...

Their story began as fish left the water between 390 and 360 million years ... Related: Why dinosaur footprints inspired paleontologist Martin Lockley. ] The newly discovered 356 million-year ...