Long before large reptiles dominated the land, Arthropleura moved through dense Carboniferous forests as the largest known terrestrial invertebrate Fossil trackways and body impressions suggest an ...

A newly-discovered fossil of a reptile from that era, Erpetonyx arsenaultorum is exciting paleontologist Dr Sean Modesto from Cape Breton University. “I was excited that we had a nearly complete, ...

Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

The genera of primitive and synapsid reptiles which form the usual morphotypic series leading to cynodonts are not members of a phyletic series. Ecological analyses show three developing evolutionary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of what the Amniote (early reptile) would look like from 350 million years ago. “I’m stunned,” Per Ahlberg, a ...

Sixty five million years ago, dinosaurs of every shape and size roamed the Earth, before they were mysteriously wiped from the face of the planet. Before their long reign, it was monstrous amphibians ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals, according to a study published in Nature today. The ...

"I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when ...

The coal forests covered Europe and North America during the Carboniferous The fragmentation of tropical rainforests 300 million years ago helped pave the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, a new ...

The fragmentation of tropical rainforests 300 million years ago helped pave the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. In the Carboniferous period, North America and Europe lay at ...