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Permian Fossil is Earliest Evidence of Rib-Powered Breathing

Paleontologists have examined 289-million-year-old specimens of the early reptile Captorhinus aguti that preserve a covering of three-dimensional skin, a complete shoulder girdle and ribcage with cartilages, and protein remnants that predate the previous oldest-known example by nearly 100 million years.

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