Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Sunday, October 5, 2008 - 12:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters in diameter -- date back some 570 million years, to the Ediacaran period.
Read the whole article on Science Daily
More from Science Daily
Related
- Earliest animal footprints ever found -- discovered in NevadaSun, 5 Oct 2008, 10:08:55 EDT
- Geologist analyzes earliest shell-covered fossil animalsThu, 22 Oct 2009, 10:38:18 EDT
- Researchers find earliest evidence for animal lifeWed, 4 Feb 2009, 14:43:39 EST
- Fossil steroids record the advent of earliest known animalsWed, 4 Feb 2009, 15:50:52 EST
- 1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feetThu, 26 Feb 2009, 14:32:20 EST