Researchers from the University of Warsaw, the Polish Geological Institute with the Uppsala University in Sweden have made the sensational discovery, the results of which are published in the prestigious Nature magazine this month.
Fossilised footprints found in southern Poland by Polish and Swedish paleontologists show that four legged creatures stalked the Earth 18 million years before originally thought!
Magdalena Jensen spoke to Professor Marek Narkiewcz, one of the group members and a geologist.