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

The timeline of these events has seemed clear-cut: the first tetrapods evolved during the Devonian period and the earliest members of the modern groups appeared during the following Carboniferous ...

Scientists Found Footprints That Push Humanity’s Timeline Back By a Shocking 40 Million Years. Elizabeth Rayne. ... was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period.

Fossilized footprints discovered in Victoria, Australia, suggest reptiles existed 359 million years ago, pushing back their evolutionary timeline. These Carboniferous Period tracks predate known ...

Rewriting the timeline. This find has a massive impact on the origin timeline of all tetrapods. If amniotes had already evolved by the earliest Carboniferous, as our fossil shows, the last common ...

Fossil records of crown-group amniotes -- the group that includes mammals, birds and reptiles -- begin in the Late Carboniferous period (about 318 million years old), while previously the earliest ...

During the 60 million-year-long Carboniferous period on Earth vast carbon beds were laid down from ... He emphasises the method used to determine the timeline for the emergence of white rot ...

Before this study, the earliest known amniote fossils had been found in Nova Scotia, Canada, and were dated to the mid-Carboniferous period, about 319 million years ago.

The timeline of these events has seemed clear-cut: the first tetrapods evolved during the Devonian period and the earliest members of the modern groups appeared during the following Carboniferous ...