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

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

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...

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

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

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In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

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

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

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

For about 2% of the world’s amphibian species, it’s already getting too hot to survive in their natural habitats, according ...