Ryosuke Motani

Palaeobiologist, University of California, Davis; co-author of the study

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Fossil shows an amphibian that lived fully in the Triassic sea

Co-author of the Gerrothorax maritimus paper

No living amphibian spends its life in the sea. Of the more than 8,000 modern species, all handle saltwater in short bursts with freshwater breaks—none is fully marine. A paper published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports a 237-million-year-old amphibian that grew up drinking seawater, overturning that picture.

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