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Nature 417, 129 (9 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417129a

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Geology:  A foot in the past

Tom Clarke

The oldest fossils of footprints ever found on land suggest that animals may have emerged from the seas much earlier than had been thought. Lobster-sized, centipede-like animals made the prints shown here about 500 million years ago.