Join us as we travel back in time. We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water's edge, something happened that would forever change life ...

The discovery of a 3-metre fossil tetrapod in the Ugab River valley in Namibia has undermined theories about the evolution of these ancient four-legged creatures. Basal tetrapods were animals at the ...

An artistic rendering of gaiasia jennaye. (Illustration by Gabriel Lio from the study, via Courthouse News) (CN) — A study published in Nature on Wednesday describes how scientists working deep in ...

An apex predator with a two-foot skull dominated by huge fangs, which lurked in fresh water in a time before the dinosaurs, has been discovered by a team of scientists. A study published Wednesday in ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

Lost species are those that have not been observed in the wild for over ten years, despite searches to find them. Lost tetrapod species (four-limbed vertebrate animals including amphibians, birds, ...

"I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when ...