This fossil-rich landscape tells the story of ... Things like ammonoids, brachiopods, and trilobites. Most of the creatures whose bodies built that reef went extinct more than 250 million years ...

fell in April from the record levels hit in the prior month, although natural gas, crude oil and coal all delivered increases compared to the previous year as the government continues to ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

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

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

The earliest known fossil record of a cicadidae dates from the Late Palaeocene period around 60 million years ago, the researchers note in their paper. It was found at Bear Creek in the U.S. state ...

But the fossil record shows the earliest members of this amniote group were small and looked rather like lizards. How did they emerge? The oldest known tetrapods have always been thought to be ...

“They demonstrate, once more, the extraordinary importance of happenstance and serendipity in the study of severely under-sampled parts of the fossil record.” Experts Found a 700-Year-Old ...