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 ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

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

A fossil found in Victoria’s High Country has given scientists an astonishing new insight into life’s evolution from water ...

For the first time in its 144-year history the Natural History Museum dedicates an exhibition to the wonders of space ...

Clive Phillips offers a novel read about historical and futuristic views of animal ethics and how we must change our ...

There is so much salt that if you were able to extract it all from the ocean and pile it up on the land, you would be able to cover the entire land mass of our planet . It wouldn’t be a thin layer, ...

Scientists say meat eating ants are cleaners of the savannah where dead bodies of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals are ...

Teacher Cédric Sapin-Defour was in the midst of grief when Bernese Mountain Dog Ubac came into his life. He reveals how their ...

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a ...

Therefore, he said, monotremes provide a window into the origins of mammals on Earth. A new study ... the suggestion that these animals were adapted to a semiaquatic life very early on,” said ...