This armored amphibian once lived and hunted on the seafloor

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Amphibians are dependent on their permeable skin, by which they breathe and absorb water, a characteristic that makes them vulnerable in the marine environment. For this reason, no amphibians had been identified, alive or missing, fully adapted to life in...

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237 million years ago, a previously unknown predator lived in the ancient seas of what is now China. Now, paleontologists have described it in the journal Nature. They have discovered that it was very special.

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Two fossil skeletons discovered in China describe Gerrothorax maritimus, a 90 cm battled amphibian who would have lived in the open sea 237 million years ago. A first among amphibians.