First land animal

According to Official Guinness Records,

The earliest known land animal is Pneumodesmus newmani, a species of millipede known from a single fossil specimen, which lived 428 million years ago during the late Silurian Period. It was discovered in 2004, in a layer of sandstone near Stonehaven, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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