China Daily·3 min read·medium
Fossil shows reptile species' aquatic transition
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YAN YUJIE and LI YINGQING in Kunming
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Scientists have identified a 244-million-year-old fossil named Austronaga in China, which is the earliest known archosauromorph highly adapted to aquatic life. This discovery challenges previous assumptions that early archosauromorphs were primarily land-dwelling.
Chinese scientists have identified a 244-million-year-old reptile fossil from Southwest China's Yunnan province as the earliest known archosauromorph that was highly adapted to life in water, providing the first clear evidence that some early members of the evolutionary group had become almost completely aquatic.
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