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Hideous knobby-faced beast was the first to stand on all fours: 260 million-year-old fossils reveal creature walked like a cow

• Named Bunostegos akokanensis, it roamed supercontinent Pangea
  
• Its fossils were first found in the Sahara Desert of northern Niger in 2013
  
• Study suggests long bone in all of its limbs did not have a twist structure
  
• It was unable to move flat on the ground, like other creatures at the time
  
• Walking upright may have helped the creatures conserve more energy
  

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com
Published: 18:53, 18 September 2015  | Updated: 21:49, 18 September 2015

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The first known animal to have walked on all fours was a hideous cow-like creature that lived 260 million years ago.
Dubbed Bunostegos akokanensis, the knobby-faced 'pre-reptile' was unlike any other animal that roamed the supercontinent Pangea.
About the size of a domestic cow, the plant-eater had bulbous tumour-like growths sprouting from its head and bony armour down its back.

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The first known animal to have walked on all fours was a hideous cow-like creature that lived 260 million years ago. Dubbed Bunostegos akokanensis, the knobby-faced 'pre-reptile' was unlike any other animal that roamed the supercontinent Pangea. All other creatures found in the area from this time were known to be 'sprawlers'


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