Reptiles belong to a group of animals called amniotes that also include birds and mammals. A new Australian fossil discovery of a clawed amniote demonstrates these animals appeared much earlier than predicted by evolution theory. The introductory paragraph from the evolutionary website Earth.com says it all: “The origin of reptiles on Earth has been pushed back by an astonishing 40 million years. Fossilized tracks unearthed in Austral... More...