346 Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Life on Land

346 Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Life on Land

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346 Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Life on LandFossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate evolution during Romer’s Gap. In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland discovered a remarkable fossil: a nearly complete skeleton resembling a small lizard or salamander, just 20 centimeters long. The fossil, later named Westlothiana lizziae, turned […]

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