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IT has gone down in history as the town that invented the deep- fried Mars bar and the fountain pen, but now it appears a windswept Scottish coastal town is no less than the cradle of civilisation.
Scientists have been left slack-jawed with wonder at the discovery that life as we know it began in Stonehaven after a fossil picked up in the town last year was confirmed as the oldest air- breathing creature ever discovered.See the full content of this document
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Life On Earth Began In... Stonehaven
The millipede is less than 1cm long but lived around 420 million years ago, when Aberdeenshire was part of a giant continent spanning the equator.
The find is enormously significant because it is the earliest evidence of a creature living on dry land rather than in the ocea...See the full content of this document
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