“One fossil immediately jumped out at me—this really well-preserved, mostly prepared skull ... early amphibian ancestors who lived from the Carboniferous to the Triassic for more than ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Kermitops is notable for more than just its namesake puppet persona. The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how ...

The skull possesses a mishmash of traits that were different from features seen in the skulls of older tetrapods, the ancient ancestors of amphibians and other living four-legged vertebrates.

The fossilized skull of the 270-million-year-old amphibian ancestor was ... Permian and Triassic periods. The one-inch-long ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that ...

In the study, published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science, their findings suggest the amphibians' success ... all around them through the Triassic. Broader examination of Triassic ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit – or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians ... skull behind the eyes, which differs from the other fossil ...

Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians ... in the temporal region of the skull, although the fenestrae are modified in some groups (as seen in ...

According to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossils are from giant ichthyosaurs that roamed the world’s oceans at the end of the Triassic period ... One ...