Still Waters Posted January 24, 2019 #1 Share Posted January 24, 2019 No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, 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 in the journal Scientific Reports Jan. 24. Apart from its platypus-like bill, Eretmorhipis was about 70 centimeters long with a long rigid body, small head and tiny eyes, and four flippers for swimming and steering. Bony plates ran down the animal's back. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-reptile-platypus-early-triassic.html 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted January 24, 2019 #2 Share Posted January 24, 2019 The calcium carbonite platform is probably the remains of some of the creatures it ate. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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