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Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University; co-corresponding author

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Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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Fossil shows an amphibian that lived fully in the Triassic sea

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Co-corresponding author of the Gerrothorax maritimus paper

A paper published October 26 in Nature Ecology & Evolution describes a 237-million-year-old armored amphibian from Guizhou, China. Its authors say the animal grew up drinking seawater, something no living amphibian does.

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