These fossils provide an exceptional ... The earliest amniotes were reptiles, and are thought to have emerged from prehistoric amphibians in the late Carboniferous period roughly 318 million ...

One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly ... In time, the earliest reptiles appeared. Identified from remains found inside fossilized Carboniferous tree stumps, they were small, agile ...

and sauropsids (reptiles and birds). Mammals branched off from other amniotes very early. Several mammalian characteristics are ancestral. The first sauropsid diapsid reptile appeared in the fossil ...

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their wealth of fossils from the ...