World's smallest fossil footprints: Small amphibian roamed Earth 315 million years ago
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new set of fossil footprints discovered in Joggins, Nova Scotia, have been identified as the world's smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints. The footprints belonged to a small amphibian which would have roamed Earth 315 million years ago, a creature not unlike a salamander.