Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14 million years and placed them in a stretch of the fossil record where nothing was supposed to exist

In 1984, an amateur palaeontologist found a small, nearly complete fossil in a quarry in West Lothian, Scotland. The creature, later named Westlothiana lizziae, is about 20 centimetres long and resembles a salamander. It is one of the earliest known examples of a four-limbed animal that had made the transition from water to land, a [...] The post Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14 million years and placed them in a stretch of the fossil record whe