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emersed eyes blinking
at the swift bright sun
mudflat beckons



The days are getting longer. Some 350 million years ago, when fish first contemplated land, it might have gone like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate_land_invasion

A short 35 million years later, their descendants' footprints were all over the place.

http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/monograph/monofiles/monofiles.html