Palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, University of Edinburgh
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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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