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Fish with limbs such as Tiktaalik, about 375 million years ago, and tetrapod trackways in Poland about 395 million years old mark the first animals walking out of the water.
The mechanism
THE LAND BRINGS FORTH
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- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — James St. John, Tiktaalik roseae cast, Field Museum of Natural History · CC BY 2.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiktaalik_roseae_(fish_to_amphibian_transitional_fossil)_(Fram_Formation,_Upper_Devonian;_Ellesmere_Island,_Arctic_Canada)_1_(49755118288).jpg
- SourcesFOSSIL — Tiktaalik roseae, ~375 Myr (Daeschler, Shubin & Jenkins, Nature 440:757–763, 2006); Zachełmie trackways, ~395 Myr (Niedźwiedzki et al., Nature 463:43–48, 2010)
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