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These 355-Million-Year-Old Footprints Are Shattering Everything We Knew About Reptiles

Fossilized footprints discovered in southeastern Australia, dating back approximately 355 million years, have forced scientists to rethink the timeline of reptile evolution. Detailed in a recent study ...
The Columbian

Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting history of evolution

WASHINGTON — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptilelike animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first ...
Boston Herald

How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the ...
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Animals May Have Evolved from Sea to Land 35 Million Years Earlier Than Once Thought

A sandstone slab imprinted with clawed footprints could mean that four-legged animals (tetrapods) transitioned from sea to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought. That finding of the ...
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Newly discovered claw-mark fossils suggest reptiles evolved earlier than we thought

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