540m-year-old bug tracks are oldest footprints ever discovered
Ancient prints bring scientists closer to understanding what were the first creatures to evolve pairs of legs
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
Wed 6 Jun 2018 14.00 EDT
Animation of the oldest known footprints left by ancient insect – video
The oldest known footprints on Earth, left by an ancient creepy-crawly more than 500 million years ago, have been discovered in China.
The tracks were left by a primitive ancestor of modern-day insects or worms, according to scientists. Precisely what the creature looked like is a mystery, though: nothing this old with legs has been discovered to date.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/06/oldest-known-footprints-on-earth-discovered-left-by-ancient-bug
