Forgotten fossils reveal leggy legacy.

Announces that, after examining the collections of several British museums, a researcher has identified the remains of the earliest footed animal. Critical step in the evolutionary process; Rediscovery of bones which originally came from a Scottish site dating back to the Frasnian stage of the late Devonian period; Original belief that these specimens were fish remains; Report in `Nature' by Per E. Ahlberg of the University of Oxford.