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Newly discovered claw-mark fossils suggest reptiles evolved earlier than we thought

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Fossilized tracks found in Australia may have been left by a small reptile-like creature about 350 million years ago .

Footprints were discovered on a 20-inch ( 50cm ) rock slab by two amateur palaeontologists in the Snowy Plains Formation in Australia 's Victoria .

The footprints appeared to have been made by a creature with clawed feet and long toes, likely an early sauropsid.

This new discovery would push back the evolution of reptiles by roughly 30 million years .

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