While Kampecaris is the earliest land animal known from a fossil, soil worms are believed to have preceded it, appearing perhaps 450 million years ago, according to paleontologist Michael ...

Researchers said the fossil of the Silurian Period creature, called Kampecaris obanensis and unearthed on the island of Kerrera in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, inhabited a lakeside environment and ...

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...

In The Mystery of the Walking Whale, Reidenberg reveals that whales have multiple stomach chambers — just like land-based hoofed animals. That is not as strange as it might seem, she says ...

The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to ...

By Christina LarsonThe discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability to live exclusively on land much faster than ...