Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

More than 300 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur let out a roar, a small, four-legged creature was busy ...

According to the researchers, the fossil represents an early shift in diet that helped shape modern terrestrial ecosystems.

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

"Although this book is not technically a second edition, it does include material from The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants by Thomas N. Taylor and Edith L. Taylor (1993)"--Pref. Introduction to ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...