The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

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 latest findings ...

The earliest amniote fossils are from the late Carboniferous, about 320 million years old. That led scientists to conclude that the beginning of the evolutionary radiation of the modern groups ...

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast ... “We have a huge number of fossil amphibian skeletons and none have claws,” Long told IFLScience. The maker of the tracks ...

Considering that the earliest fossils of amniotes were dated to the late Carboniferous, approximately 320 million years ago, this new find could significantly push back the timeline for the ...

“As an extreme example, the track-bearing slab we’ve described is currently the only earliest Carboniferous tetrapod fossil from the whole of Gondwana – the supercontinent which included South America ...

The timeline of those events had seemed clear-cut, with the first tetrapods evolving during the Devonian period and the earliest members of the modern groups appearing during the following ...

The fossil record of crown-group amniotes, which includes modern reptiles, birds, and mammals, was previously thought to begin in the Late Carboniferous, around 318 million years ago. Earlier ...