Newly-discovered fossils reveal that some of the first animals to walk on land lived in Antarctica, ... existed during the Devonian period around 360 million years ago.

They first compared the Australian fossil to ... indeed split into two broad evolutionary groups during the Devonian period. ... Fewer Skull Bones May Have Restricted The Evolution Of Land Animals.

The first animals that lived on Earth roamed the seas. ... while arthropods and insects were making their way onto land. In the Devonian period, around 400 million years ago, ...

David McGrath has purchased the farm next to one of Australia's most valuable fossil discoveries and reopened the site to search for the first animals to walk on land.

“Life Onto Land” is the first time the Tiktaalik is being shown to the public. It may be the star of the show, but the rest of the exhibition explains why Daeschler calls the Devonian period an ...

Before these finds, palaeontologists knew that lobe-finned fishes evolved into land-living creatures during the Devonian Period. But fossil records showed a gap between Panderichthys , a fish that ...

The mudskipper, which thrives on both land and sea, likely learned to blink similarly to the first animals that came on land 375 million years ago.

The animal was 60-80 centimetres long and would have looked "quite lizard-like", he added. That the animal had claws is a clear sign it was an amniote, a group of animals which today includes ...

We have arrived in the Devonian period, some 420 to 360 million years ago. In a shallow area near the water’s edge, something happened that would forever change life on our planet: a fish from the ...