A Crocodile-Like Robot Helps Solve a 300-Million-Year Mystery
A Crocodile-Like Robot Helps Solve a 300-Million-Year Mystery
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 18, 20199m 2s
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Show Notes
Nearly 300 million years ago, a curious creature called Orobates pabsti walked the land. Animals had just begun pulling themselves out of the water and exploring the big, dry world, and here was the plant-eating tetrapod Orobates, making its way on four legs. Paleontologists know it did so because one particularly well-preserved fossil has, well, four legs. And luckily enough, scientists also discovered fossilized footprints, or trackways, to match.
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