Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

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.

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.

A stone slab barely half a meter wide is shaking the foundations of evolutionary science. Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an ...

The story of how animals first set foot out of the water and onto land just became more complex. Fossil evidence reveals that molluscs may have been among the first animals to spend time out of the ...

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went ...

An existing corridor of protected land has now been expanded farther west ... will play a vital role in saving hundreds of plants and animals, many of them unique to these landscapes, like ...

WASHINGTON—Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to ...