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Oldest animal tracks?

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Many-celled creatures may have made billion-year-old marks.

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  1. Rasmussen, B., Bengtson, S., Fletcher, I. R. & McNaughton, N. J. Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old. Science 296, 1112 - 1115 (2002).

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