Between the two of us and a colleague named Dr. Keith Thompson we looked at it and almost couldn't believe that we had found an early tetrapod fossil. We used comparisons. There are some early ...

and that it sits alongside tetrapod fossils in the immediate vicinity. “Altogether,” the Benoit wrote, “they suggest a case ...

In this video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," paleontologist Neil Shubin recounts a fossil discovery that added another compelling piece to the body of evidence ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Tetrapod skeletal fossils preserved in the South Taodonggou Section in Xinjiang, China date to approximately 150,000 years before the end-Permian mass extinction News organizations may use or ...

Gorgonopsians are the first group of tetrapod predators we know of in the fossil record to evolve saber-tooth characteristics—i.e., very large, blade-like, serrated canines. The Mallorca ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape at the onset of the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as well as ...

"We have correlated all the fossil finds with their paleoenvironments. This has allowed us to understand how Triassic tetrapod communities evolved in their environment and how they responded to ...

Credit: NIGPAS Tetrapod skeletal fossils preserved in the South Taodonggou Section in Xinjiang, China date to approximately 150,000 years before the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit ...

Julien Benoit from the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed the rock art from the early 1800s depicts a tusked animal, associating it with local tetrapod fossils. He suggests that these ...