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Newly Discovered Fossil Tracks May Rewrite Early History of Reptiles

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed earlier than expected

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Fossil tracks show reptiles appeared on Earth up to 40 million years earlier

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical time period.

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Newly discovered claw-mark fossils suggest reptiles evolved earlier than we thought

Amniotes evolved from amphibian-like ancestors, with the earliest amniote body fossils being dated to the late Carboniferous Period, which spanned from approximately 359 to 299 million years ago.

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Entire Fossilized Ecosystem Reveals Over 100 Carboniferous Organisms

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous ... eggs on the surface of a plant, and the newfound fossils suggest insects may have ...

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Carboniferous Period

3 min read The Carboniferous period ... Over millions of years, the organic deposits of this plant debris formed the world's first extensive coal deposits—coal that humans are still burning ...

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Fossil Plants at the Museum.

The collection of fossil plants in possesion of the Botanical ... among them a sereis of forty six choice slides of carboniferous plants, for microscopic study, prepared by Mr. Lomax, of ...

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This car-sized “millipede” was built like a tank — and had the face to go with it

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

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Bombshell discovery of 'earliest footprints ever' completely rewrites theory of evolution

Considering that the earliest fossils of amniotes were dated to the late Carboniferous, approximately 320 million years ago, this new find could significantly push back the timeline for the ...

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Prehistoric plants: How to grow a dinosaur garden

In the Carboniferous Period, 359 to 299 million years ago, plants grew in swampy, green bogs that over time became the coal deposits we use today as fossil fuels. Among the plants that grew ...

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