The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

A new discovery is rewriting the history of evolution by millions of years - The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

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