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New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

The tracks left by organisms are among the most difficult of fossils to interpret. But just such evidence puts debate about the origins of four-limbed vertebrates (which include ourselves) on a ...

Of the few courses of value I have enrolled in while at Rutgers, one of my most favorite was the paleontology class taught by William Gallagher from the NJ State Museum (which, coincidentally, has ...

Misidentified as a rhizodont fish on its discovery in 1971, recent preparation has revealed the specimen to be a tetrapod of about 650 mm in presacral length, lacking only a few parts of the skull, ...

Q: Tell me about some of the important fossils you've found in Pennsylvania. TD: One of the fascinating things we discovered early in the project was an animal that we named Hynerpeton, which means ...

Source: NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" This media asset comes from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial". According to modern evolutionary theory, all populations of ...

I love outdated museum displays. They marvelously represent the “history” part of natural history exhibits – dusty dioramas of old ideas that are a baseline for how much our understanding has changed.

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Mar., 2000), pp. 301-308 (8 pages) Recent paleontological fieldwork in the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation at Red Hill in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, USA, ...

Out of the ocean An armour of acid-neutralising bone helped four-legged vertebrates to survive when they first crawled out of the ocean, say researchers. Palaeontologist Dr Christine Janis, from Brown ...

"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 ...