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.

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast Australia appear to be from an amniote, most likely a reptile. If so, these beat the previous oldest evidence for amniotes by more than 30 ...

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

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 ...

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.

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.