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Published online 30 April 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020429-2
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Oldest fossil footprints on land
Animals may have beaten upright plants to land.
The oldest fossils of footprints ever found on land hint that animals may have beaten plants out of the primordial seas.
Lobster-sized, centipede-like animals made the prints wading out of the ocean and scuttling over sand dunes about 530 million years ago.
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