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Ancient footprints from Australia reveal earliest-known reptile

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ago are rewriting the history of the evolution of land vertebrates, showing that reptiles arose much earlier than previously known.

The Boston Globe · 1d

Oldest footprints of first ‘reptile’ found by fossil hunters

The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve into dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.

Associated Press · 1d

How ancient footprints in Australia are rewriting the history of land animals

Scientists in Australia have identified the earliest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone extracted from the Snowy Plains Formation near Melbourne.

National Geographic news1y

If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky, They’d Look Like This

If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like ... “In winter the starlings gather in large groups,” says Bou, who took this photo in the agrarian village of Arbeca, Spain.

Statesman Journal28d

Fossilized animal footprints from 50 million years ago discovered in Oregon

The research found the impressions were the first known fossil tracks of birds and lizards at the monument ... rounded hoofprints that may have come from a large herbivore such as an ancient ...

PBS4y

Laetoli Footprints:

The majority of the Laetoli footprint site ... trapping footprints. Birds and mammals left a great number of prints, but, spectacularly, so did a pair of hominids, one large and one small ...

CNN21d

Fossilized footprints reveal unprecedented insight into prehistoric animal behavior in Oregon

On the fourth try, the bird may have found something. Or perhaps it missed again and moved on. This glimpse into prehistory is possible thanks to two tiny fossil footprints and the dogged work of ...

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