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Armored amphibian lived entirely at sea 237 million years ago, fossils suggest

Phys.org · WORLD · Science · 10/26/2026, 12:00:06 PM

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander–sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named Gerrothorax maritimus.

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