Scales helped reptiles conquer the land-when did they first evolve?
Briefly

Their feet left copious traces in muddy Permian floodplains, but the 300 million-year-old tail scale impressions show early evolution of key skin structures.
The discovery at Piaskowiec Czerwony quarry in Poland, described in a Biology Letters paper, reveals a rare find with unique body impressions and trace fossils.
Read at Ars Technica
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