250-Million-Year-Old Triassic Fossils Reveal a Rapid Global Marine Rebound After Mass Extinction

250-Million-Year-Old Triassic Fossils Reveal a Rapid Global Marine Rebound After Mass Extinction

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the end-Permian mass extinction.

250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’

Ancient marine amphibians Erythrobatrachus (foreground) and Aphaneramma (background). Pollyanna von Knorring (Swedish Museum of Natural History)The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons often flood the Martuwarra Fitzroy River – an artery to the Indian Ocean – in the region’s south. But if y…

Rediscovery of ancient Australian 'sea-salamanders' from the beginning