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Oct. 5) - The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.
Scientists think land beasts evolved from ancient creatures that left the sea and evolved lungs and legs. If the new finding is real — the discoverer says will fuel skepticism — it pushes the advent of walking back 30 million years earlier than any previous solid finding.

http://news.aol.com/article/oldest-footprints-on-ear... 

Traces of a dinosaur found a German quarry suggest the creatures may have been 15 million years older than previously believed.Dinosaurs may have been around longer than first thought.ZoomREUTERSDinosaurs may have been around longer than first thought.Dinasaurs are old. That much we knew. But a new find in a limestone quarry located in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt may show that they are fully 15 million years older than scientists currently believe.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,5... 

THE earthworks left behind by the long-vanished civilizations of the Midwest are harder to spot than the pueblos and kivas of Arizona and New Mexico. For a long time many of them were hidden in plain sight or dismissed as little more than heaps of soil. But the more today’s archaeologists learn about the Midwestern mounds, the more intriguing is the picture that emerges from 1,000 or more years ago: a city with thousands of people just a few miles from present-day St.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/14/travel... 

Most people know that the Olympics started out in Ancient Greece, but did you know that back then the athletes competed in the nude? (Though technically, they could wear penis restraints - yes, you read that right). Or that one of the games was an ancient form of mixed martial arts? Or that a chef won the very first Olympic games?

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/02/10-fascinating-f... 

Where did charm bracelets originate? No one knows for sure. The demand for charms or amulets existed in ancient society, and date back to 500BC. The charms were made of natural gems or rocks (such as lapis or quartz) that were carved with designs of animals or their gods

http://en.mblog.com.ua/Article/Charm_Gold_Jewelry/71