Oldest footprints reveal when sea creatures took their first steps on land

dailymail.co.uk ^ | Jan. 7, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Free ThinkerNY]

The earliest footprints made by Earth's first four-legged creatures have been unearthed by scientists.

The fossilized tracks were left 395million years ago by several primitive animals up to eight feet long.

They are being hailed as a 'missing link' in one of evolution's most spectacular transitions - the shift from water to land.

The findings have stunned scientists because the footprints date to 18million years before four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods were known to have existed.

The tracks were found in the Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland, one of the oldest ranges in Europe, and have distinctive 'hand' and 'foot' shapes with no evidence of a dragging body.

Some of the prints described in Nature are up to 10.2" wide - indicative of animals just over eight feet in length.

[The Comedian]

Unprecedented...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[YHAOS]

"Wow! Moving tetrapod emergence back by a whopping 3%. This PROVES that all scientists are atheists and that the Theory of Evolution is a fraud!"

OK, if you say so. But isn't that thinking kind of silly?

[calex59]

Yeah, yet another missing link. How many does that make now? Oh, yeah, if this one pans out it will bring the total up to one.

[UCANSEE2]

Looks like a side view of this.

[UCANSEE2]

Scientists claim no luck in identifying species from 1.5 million y.o. footprints.

[T Minus Four]

Well if evolution is true, why do we still have worms?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Larry Lucido]

Oldest footprints reveal when sea creatures took their first steps on land

And I had just mopped, too.