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

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

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

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

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...

Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...

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

Before these finds, palaeontologists knew that lobe-finned fishes evolved into land-living creatures during the Devonian Period. But fossil records showed ... the earliest known tetrapod (four-limbed ...

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