According to Professor John Long from Flinders University, these imprints challenge the traditional view of reptile evolution. According to the experts, the tracks suggest that these animals may have ...

WASHINGTON—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 ...

Did the first modern tetrapods, our own distant ancestors, emerge in the temperate Devonian landscapes of southern Gondwana, ...

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, ...

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in southeastern Australia, dating back approximately 355 million years, have forced ...

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

A single track-bearing slab calls into question everything we thought we knew about when modern tetrapods evolved.' ...