{"id":1735,"date":"2018-08-24T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2018-08-24T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:05:01","slug":"tetrapod-385-million-year-old-fossilised-footprints-valentia-island-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Tetrapod 385 million year old Fossilised Footprints, Valentia Island, Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_\u0662\u0660\u0661\u0668\u0660\u0668\u0662\u0664_\u0662\u0662\u0664\u0664\u0661\u0667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1736\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_\u0662\u0660\u0661\u0668\u0660\u0668\u0662\u0664_\u0662\u0662\u0664\u0664\u0661\u0667.jpg 585w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_\u0662\u0660\u0661\u0668\u0660\u0668\u0662\u0664_\u0662\u0662\u0664\u0664\u0661\u0667-300x205.jpg 300w, wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_\u0662\u0660\u0661\u0668\u0660\u0668\u0662\u0664_\u0662\u0662\u0664\u0664\u0661\u0667-379x259.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Valentia Island Tetrapod fossilised footprints are the oldest record of vertebrate life on land and the amazing beginning of the human evolutionary story.  About 385 million years ago, a primitive amphibian like animal known as a Tetrapod left its footprints on the muddy shoreline when Valentia Island was a swamp land near the equator. It was a very different place to the one we know today and still a very long time before the first dinosaur appeared.  The tracks record when vertebrates first moved onto land, started breathing air and walking on four limbs.<\/p>\n<p>from: Kerry<br \/>\nActiveme.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valentia Island Tetrapod fossilised footprints are the oldest record of vertebrate life on land and the amazing beginning of the human evolutionary story. About 385 million years ago, a primitive amphibian like animal known as a Tetrapod left its footprints on the muddy shoreline when Valentia Island was a swamp land near the equator. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}