Scientists have finally named a new species of giant amphibian that they believe modern day Chinese giant salamanders are descended from.
Part of what makes this particular fossil so exciting is that it gives us a nearly complete view of the entire skeleton of the“We don’t often find skeletons with the head and body still attached, and the soft tissue preservation is an even rarer occurrence,” Lachlan Hart, a PhD candidate in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW said in aThe researchers say that the fossil makes the giant amphibian look very similar to its modern-day descendants, the Chinese giant...
In the meantime, this is one of the most important fossils that has been discovered in New South Wales within the last 30 years or so, according to Dr. Matthew Curry, Senior Lecturer in UNSW’s School of BEES and Curator of Palaeontology at the Australian Museum. Fossils like this, and even those
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