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Scales helped reptiles conquer the land—when did they first evolve?
Enlarge / Higher left: a reconstruction of Diadcetes. Under: false coloration pictures of its foot and tail prints. Proper: the part of the tail that left the print. (credit score: Voigt et. al./Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP.) Their ft left copious traces in