Odd duckbilled sea reptile thrived after ancient global calamity
Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In shallow warm seas about 247 million years ago in what is now China, an oddball marine reptile flourished in the aftermath of Earth's worst mass extinction, possessing a duckbilled snout and unusually small eyes that made it resemble a platypus.