Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.

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 ...

After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its small claws into the still-wet ground. Its tracks, which have been discovered in ...

Between trees, on paths, and at forest edges, animal tracks tell of a lively, mostly unseen nightlife. Mud and fresh snow act ...

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