Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Ancient lungfish jaws tell a complex evolutionary story. New 3D analysis uncovers surprising feeding adaptations. Ancient ...

Animals that rely on both land and water to survive In the wild, survival often comes down to how well an animal can adapt.

The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods — some of the first animals to make the transition from ...

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago.

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than previously assumed.

How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal ...