@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 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 […]
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WFS News: Atopodentatus unicus: Earth’s Earliest Herbivorous Marine Reptile
June 27th, 2016 
Riffin Nearly two years ago, an international team of paleontologists discovered a bizarre fossil — Atopodentatus unicus, a 10 feet (3 m) long marine reptile that lived in what is now China 247 to 242 million years ago (Middle Triassic). Atopodentatus unicus’ head was poorly preserved, but it seemed to have a flamingo-like ‘beak.’ But according […]
