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Armored Amphibian from Triassic Period is First Known to Have Lived Entirely in the Sea


Paleontologists have described what they say is the first fully marine species of a stem amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus, based on two nearly complete skeletons from the Late Triassic epoch of China.

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