Life Fossil tracks rewrite history of animals leaving water to live on land. The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

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 ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor.

Only animals that evolved to live solely on land ever developed claws. The earliest vertebrates -- fish and amphibians — never developed hard nails and remained dependent on watery environments ...

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 ...

But some conservationists are expressing wide-ranging concern about the unintended consequences that could arise as researchers continue to try to resurrect versions of extinct animals ...