Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 27 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040126-1
News
Fossil find breaks age record
Scottish millipede represents earliest known air-breathing animal.
An amateur fossil-hunter in Scotland has unearthed the oldest known air-breathing land animal: a tiny millipede that lived 428 million years ago.
The discovery doesn't change scientists' understanding of when air-breathing creatures evolved.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email webadmin@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
There are currently no comments.
