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The Fiskie Award for 2009 Goes To: A Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich

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Kragar1/07/2010 10:51:00 am PST

Scientists discover oldest footprints on Earth

It must be almost 6000 years old!

CNN) — Scientists have found the oldest fossilized footprints made by a four-legged creature forcing a rethink on when fish first crawled out of water and onto land.

The discovery of the footprints in a former quarry in the Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland are thought to be 395-million years old — 18 million years older than the earliest tetrapod (a vertebrate with limbs rather than fins) body fossils.

OH NOES! THEY LIEZ!