346 Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Life on Land

346 Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Life on Land

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate evolution during Romer’s Gap. In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland discovered a remarkable fossil: a nearly complete skeleton resembling a small lizard or salamander, just 20 centimeters long. The fossil, later named Westlothiana lizziae, turned [...]

346-Million-Year-Old Fossil Pushes Evolution Timeline Back by 14 Million Years - Optic Flux

New dating on Scotland’s Westlothiana fossil reveals a game-changing moment in Earth’s biological history — right in the heart of Romer’s Gap. Why This Fossil Just Changed Everything A small, lizard-like creature found in East Kirkton Quarry is now confirmed to be 346 million years old, pushing the timeline of life on land significantly earlier […]