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Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

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Paleontologists discovered fossil evidence that early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have larval stages with external gills, fundamentally revising understanding of how complex life transitioned from water to land.

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