“I’m stunned,” Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden who coordinated the study, said in a statement. “A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into ...

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

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. Fossilized ...

New research conducted by palaeontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin reveals a burst in jaw variety in the earliest amniotes – which includes the ...

The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers have revealed. The earliest reptiles, birds and mammals may have borne live young, researchers from Nanjing University ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans ...