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Science 3 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5493, p. 917
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5493.917a
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PALEONTOLOGY:
First Upright Vertebrate Lived Fast, Died Young

Erik Stokstad

A new fossil discovery shows that at least one reptile was dashing around on two legs in the Early Permian, as much as 80 million years before the first dinosaur. On page 969, researchers describe Eudibamus cursoris, a 25-centimeter-long herbivore that is the earliest known vertebrate able to run on its hindlimbs.

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