Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

This reptile probably was a predator because plant ... as well as fossil footprints from about the same time. The reptile that left the Australian footprints lived during the Carboniferous Period ...

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 ...