Cockroaches have been a part of the animal kingdom, even before dinosaurs roamed around earth. These tiny pests are not only ...

Pupils from Tweedmouth Middle School have been adding the finishing touches to a series of papier mâché sculptures of ancient ...

A fossil with eyes on stalks and a clawed trunk, the Tully monster has defied classification for over 70 years—and still has ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

And yet, that’s precisely what a new analysis has concluded. “Our study indicates that organisms with slender body profiles ...

Actinopterygians were still restricted to a few species with similar body shapes. By the immediately succeeding early Carboniferous times, everything had changed. The placoderms were gone, the number ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

Most scientists agree amphibians and amniotes separated at the start of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Later in the period, the amniote lineage split further into the ...

Fossil hunters search the Carboniferous red sandstone in the Mansfield area of Victoria. Such outcrops recently yielded the trackways of the world’s oldest reptile. Image credit: John Long All the ...

But if the ancestors of reptiles existed during the early Carboniferous, their split from amphibians must have occurred even earlier, says Long.

Bombshell discovery of 'earliest footprints ever' completely rewrites theory of evolution The sandstone slab was found by two amateur palaeontologists in Australia and carries well-preserved ...