Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex ...

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.

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

The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals is estimated to have occurred around 400 million years ago. This new evidence significantly shortens the assumed timeframe for the development of fully ...

An artist's illustration of the possible appearance of a reptile-like creature that lived around 350 million years ago in what's now Australia (Marcin Ambrozik/Prof. Per Erik Ahlberg via AP)) ...

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 ...

This image provided by Prof. Per Erik Ahlberg shows an artist's illustration of the possible appearance of a reptile-like creature that lived around 350 million years ago in what's now Australia.