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Illustration of Ichthyostega and Eusthenopteron
Thursday, Jan. 07, 2010

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  • JENNY CLACK,
  • a paleontologist at Cambridge University, on a set of fossilized footprints in Poland that show four-footed animals on land nearly 400 million years ago, long before scientists thought animals emerged from the sea
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