Palaeontologists studied Cladarosymblema narrienense, a 330 million-year-old fish from the Carboniferous Period found in Queensland, which is an ancestor of the first land animals or four-limbed ...

The fossil—the remains of a creature called Arthropleura—dates from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago, over 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs.

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast Australia appear to be from an amniote, most likely a reptile. If so, these beat the previous oldest evidence for amniotes by more than 30 ...

A new study from the University of Missouri sheds light on how exceptional fossil preservation at Mazon Creek captured the diversity of life across land, delta and sea.

Back to homepage / Live news Ancient reptile tracks rewrite when animals conquered land. Paris (AFP) – After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago ...

A sandstone slab imprinted with clawed footprints could mean that four-legged animals (tetrapods) transitioned from sea to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought.That finding of the ...

Although it was previously identified, it has not been classified into any one group of animals because of a lack of fossil details. The Carboniferous era is associated with rich coal deposits in ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

Ancient reptile tracks rewrite when animals conquered land. Paris (AFP) – After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its small ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...