First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Evolution takes some weird twists and turns to bring animals to their current forms. While evolution is based on random ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you'd think about the relationships between our fossil ...

A 346-million-year-old fossil is rewriting the story of vertebrate evolution.

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

Until now, evidence suggested that the last common ancestor of modern amphibians and amniotes lived around 352 million years ago. But if the ancestors of reptiles existed during the early ...

Common ancestor. Until now, evidence suggested that the last common ancestor of modern amphibians and amniotes lived around 352 million years ago.

Amphibians have been with us since the Devonian ... That still leaves the question of how frog ancestors made it through the worst of the catastrophe. While During doesn’t know, she suggests ...

Metoposaurid tenospondyls are some of the earliest ancestors of today’s frogs ... of its life in the water eating fish, other amphibians, or anything unfortunate enough to venture too far ...

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including crocodile relatives - the top predators of their time - giant amphibians, the world's oldest turtle, the first dinosaurs in Europe, aetosaurs and remains of the first tiny ancestors of ...