Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

Learn more about the lineages of Australian and South American tree frogs, which separated approximately 55 million years ago ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

The southern corroboree frog is an iconic species in Australia. The tiny frog is known for the striking yellow and black ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

Most scientists agree amphibians and amniotes separated at the start of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago ...

Tracks in Australia appear to be the earliest known amniote prints — a group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...