Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some ...

Species living on land make up 85 percent to 95 percent of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive when we consider that the continents cover only 30 percent of our planet’s ...

Species living on land make up 85% to 95% of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive when we consider that the continents cover only 30% of our planet’s surface area. And that ...

"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 ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) --According to most anthropologists, tetrapods were the first animals to ditch the sea for land. The group evolved from fishes, and once on land, they gave rise to amphibians, reptiles, ...

Superbly preserved fossils from Russia cast new and surprising light on one of the earliest tetrapods -- the group of animals that made the evolutionary transition from water to land and ultimately ...

Off the southwest, Co Kerry coast lies one of Ireland's most westerly points and best kept secrets, Valentia Island. Almost 385 million years ago, long before dinosaurs set foot on earth, Ireland and ...

The habits of a needle-toothed tetrapod which lived more than 370 million years ago have filled in a piece of the evolutionary puzzle after an international team of palaeontologists pieced together ...

Most of us would recognise a human brain, but what about the brain of a frog or fish? Given the vast diversity of life on Earth, there are some weird and wonderful brains out there. Despite this, the ...