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Some 370 million years ago in the Late Devonian, fish with fleshy limbs began to push onto land. The first tetrapods often kept gills and a swimmer's tail. In the Carboniferous, their amphibian relatives ruled the swamps of giant fern forests.
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Holl
A man drowned in the Deluge: that is what Johann Jakob Scheuchzer thought he saw in 1726 in a fossil from Öhningen. He called it Homo diluvii testis, meaning "the man who witnessed the Deluge".
Photo: Ghedoghedo (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Shishkin and Rubidge
It hid in another animal's burrow. A synchrotron revealed the scene in 2013 inside a sandstone block from South Africa. The amphibian had crept in while the owner lay dormant. A flash flood probably buried them both. Found in 1975, the block had stayed untouched for years.
Photo: Vincent Fernandez, Fernando Abdala, Kristian J. Carlson, Della Collins Cook, Bruce S. Rubidge, Adam Yates, Paul Tafforeau (CC BY-SA 2.5)
James Richard Beerbower
This North American amphibian looked very much like a larger cousin. It measured over 46 centimetres but remained much smaller.
Photo: Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov (CC BY 3.0)
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