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Tetrapod Trackway, Valentia Island, Kerry, Ireland
Etching with aquatint
24 x 30cm
2019

This small and arguably visually underwhelming track of fossilised footprints reveals the presence of a tetrapod - the first creature to emerge from the sea onto the land, some 350 million years ago. They were only discovered in 1993.




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