Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

After a brief rain 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its claws into the ground. Its tracks now show the oldest-known ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the first truly terrestrial vertebrates. Some of these animals, known as the ...

In fact, the supercontinent fostered the common ancestor of the Australian ... To be sure, the new study isn’t the first to investigate the divergence of the Australian and South American tree frogs.

The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean ... Australia was part of the supercontinent Gondwana. The fossil footprints record a series of events in one day ...

Paris (AFP) – After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 ... the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. First there was a single footprint of an unknown animal ...