A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

Around 307 million years ago lived a football-size and -shaped creature that loved to munch on veggies. Scientists have just dubbed the newly discovered species, Tyrannoroter heberti, one of the first ...

Very few species on Earth today are considered “living fossils”–species that have survived over hundreds of millions of years, remaining more or less unchanged compared to their distant ancestors.

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

Evidence of the earliest known reptile-like animal, an ancestor of many four-limbed creatures including birds, reptiles and mammals, has been found in Victoria, Australia. The discovery could push ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...