A single track-bearing slab calls into question everything we thought we knew about when modern tetrapods evolved.' ...

No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to ...

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

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

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

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

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the ...

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

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

A fossil trackway east of Still Bay in South Africa's Western Cape ... which consisted of eight tracks and two scuff marks made, apparently, by the animal's tail. They examined the track-bearing ...

Read more: First fossil hyena tracks found in South Africa – how expert animal trackers helped We showed them the intriguing trackway, which consisted of eight tracks and two scuff marks made ...