While the non-avian dinosaurs are long gone, sharks are still going strong. They’ve been around longer than trees (which ...

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

as our fossil shows, the last common ancestor of amniotes and amphibians has to lie much further back in time, in the Devonian period. We can estimate the timing of the split by comparing the ...

This fossil trackway whispers that we have been looking for the origin of modern tetrapods in the wrong time, and perhaps the wrong place. Tetrapods originated a long time ago in the Devonian period, ...

the first tetrapods evolved during the Devonian period and the earliest members of the modern groups appeared during the following Carboniferous period. The earliest amniote fossils are from the ...

The fossils were unearthed in the Georgina Basin in Queensland, Australia. The strata date back to the Emsian stage of the Early Devonian period, approximately 400 million years ago, the Global ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago. A trek to the abandoned, 300-acre limestone quarry at the park is “a ...

The fossils also revealed a consistent difference in nitrogen ... that certain coral species were already living in photosymbiosis during the Middle Devonian period. "Photosymbiosis could explain why ...

A fascinating history: Coelacanths through the ages More than 175 species of fossil coelacanth lived between the Lower Devonian period (419 to 411 million years ago) and the end of the Cretaceous ...

Who knows—perhaps another fossil is waiting to be uncovered by a curious passerby? The Devonian is a geological period spanning from 416 to 359 million years ago. Known as the "age of fish," it is ...