A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

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

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in southeastern Australia, dating back approximately 355 million years, have forced ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...