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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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What had the legs of a 'gator and the jaws of a fish?

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Why, the earliest land animals.

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Because a new study shows that animals evolved weight-bearing limbs long before they had the chompers to really take advantage of a terrestrial diet.

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The research is in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology.

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Scientists had suspected that the first four-legged creatures to haul their carcasses out of the ocean didn't belly up to the salad bar straight away.

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But they lacked definitive proof.

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Now, researchers have carefully examined the fossilized faces of 89 beasties that lived on land and sea some 300 to 400 million years ago.

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They probed the jaws for a range of biomechanical features, such as how much force they could give to their bite.

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The result: seems it took tens of millions of years after setting foot on land to come up with a mouth that could munch on the greenery.

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Why the lag?

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Could be the critters had to stop being such mouth breathers and shift from using gills to using lungs,

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which freed their jaws to develop in new ways.

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And which left no more excuses to not eat their veggies.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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