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Oldest fossil footprints from reptile found in Australia (Sorry, Canada)

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. Previously the earliest known reptile footprints, found in Canada, were dated to 318 million years ago.

Researchers in Australia have found fossilized footprints of the oldest known reptile ever. The scientists estimate the prints to be around 355 million years old, which means that such land animals walked the earth 35 million years earlier than previously thought. According to the scientists, their discovery, which was published yesterday in the scientific journal Nature, sheds new light on the evolution of land animals. This evolution is said t…

Fossil Footprints Are Rewriting History of Evolution

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago, around 100 million years before the earliest dinosaurs. The discovery suggests that after the first animals emerged from the ocean around 400 million years ago, they evolved the ability...

Reptiles have roamed the Earth, and not just crawling, for tens of millions of years longer than previously thought.

Scientists Discover Oldest Reptile Tracks, Rewriting Evolution Timeline

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