Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
No animal alive today looks quite like a duck-billed platypus, a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal hailing from eastern Australia. But about 250 million years ago, something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is described […]