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Oldest footprints reveal when sea creatures took their first steps on land
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Jan. 7, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 01/10/2010 11:31:50 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

The earliest footprints made by Earth's first four-legged creatures have been unearthed by scientists.

The fossilized tracks were left 395million years ago by several primitive animals up to eight feet long.

They are being hailed as a 'missing link' in one of evolution's most spectacular transitions - the shift from water to land.

The findings have stunned scientists because the footprints date to 18million years before four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods were known to have existed.

The tracks were found in the Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland, one of the oldest ranges in Europe, and have distinctive 'hand' and 'foot' shapes with no evidence of a dragging body.

Some of the prints described in Nature are up to 10.2" wide - indicative of animals just over eight feet in length.


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1 posted on 01/10/2010 11:31:51 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Lets wait for a couple decades for peer review. Lots of fraud in the evolution religion.
2 posted on 01/10/2010 11:39:31 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s dead now.


3 posted on 01/10/2010 11:41:10 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What a bunch of crap. Just some indentions in rock and Atheists will claim it proves their delusions.

Atheists are just wishful thinkers who hope there is no God so they won't have to answer for ignoring Him their entire lives. Boy will they be disappointed when they have to bow before the King of kings and confess that he is the only true God.

Eternity is a long time to be wrong.

4 posted on 01/10/2010 11:46:47 AM PST by mrfixit514
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To: Free ThinkerNY
18 million years earlier.

Missed!

By that much!

5 posted on 01/10/2010 11:47:13 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The earliest footprints made yet found, made by some of Earth's first early four-legged creatures have been unearthed just recently found by scientists on top of one of the world's old mountain ranges.

(had to fix it some)

6 posted on 01/10/2010 11:49:58 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yet another “missing link.” When will these people wake up?


7 posted on 01/10/2010 11:50:26 AM PST by DennisR
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To: mountainlion
Lets wait for a couple decades for peer review. Lots of fraud in the evolution religion.

I'm skeptical that it would matter. Waiting for peer review will just result in the peer review being declared "fraud in the evolution religion".

8 posted on 01/10/2010 11:52:22 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: mrfixit514
What a bunch of crap. Just some indentions in rock and Atheists will claim it proves their delusions.

Oh, yes the delusion of Evolution which has been held only by "atheists" such as Pope John Paul II.

9 posted on 01/10/2010 11:54:43 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: YHAOS

Wow! Moving tetrapod emergence back by a whopping 3%. This PROVES that all scientists are atheists and that the Theory of Evolution is a fraud!


10 posted on 01/10/2010 11:56:54 AM PST by stormer
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To: Free ThinkerNY
You know, if we could find just one case of a life form that 'evolves' from say, a water-based creature

to an amphibian or land based creature with legs

then I might be able to believe in their story of evolution.

11 posted on 01/10/2010 11:58:57 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: stormer
This PROVES that all scientists are atheists use science and not religion during work hours, and that the Theory of Evolution is a fraud Theory that 'evolves' as more discoveries are made!
12 posted on 01/10/2010 12:04:27 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“They are being hailed as a ‘missing link’ ...

The silliness continues, hurrah! Next, Time magazine
will be publishing full color pictures of the creature,
it will given an endearing name, its behavioral habits
will be described, its favorite foods named, its habits
delineated (as has started), assumptions made about it
all (as has started), its vibrant colors described,
its descendants down to man charted.

And what we have is a couple footprints.

Meanwhile, in private emails, high fives to fellow
evolutionists are happening, articles to promote
careers are being laid out and plans for publication
are formulated along with strategies to keep any
opposing ideas out of “legitimate” scientific journals
are being written. Only, this group has managed to
keep their servers from being hacked...

But, they are very, very nice footprints.


13 posted on 01/10/2010 12:07:18 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Here's some cool footy prints....


14 posted on 01/10/2010 12:08:54 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: mrfixit514
Here, as you can see, is the 80 million year old remnant of DINOSAUR BEE HIVES.

And here we have the FLINTSTONE PATIO BLOCK factory remains.

These are over 200 million years old. Only the blocks remain, the casting forms have disintegrated over time, as well as the company sign.

15 posted on 01/10/2010 12:13:50 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: UCANSEE2

Grampa... is that you?


16 posted on 01/10/2010 12:15:17 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First Failed Black Pres-dent..... "Fruit of Kaboom Bomber" was the 3rd attack.)
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To: mrfixit514
Before you say anything else wrong, why don't you marginally educate yourself. Start here:

http://www.devoniantimes.org/Order/trackways.html

17 posted on 01/10/2010 12:16:28 PM PST by stormer
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I'll just strip of some of these branches, and poke some holes in the mud with this stick.


18 posted on 01/10/2010 12:26:00 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Its “Snap your Finger” time again.


19 posted on 01/10/2010 12:28:24 PM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: UCANSEE2

LOOK! A DINOSAUR GIANT!

Seriously - I can't see how they can say with conviction that those are footprints and not some random indentations.

I'm no young-earther, but I think they're stretching it a bit.

20 posted on 01/10/2010 12:33:31 PM PST by bolobaby
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