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Important Caecilian fossils from the Triassic shed some light on the early evolution of amphibians

June 23, 2017

A new paper just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences promises to shed some light on the relationships of early amphibians. It looks like caecilians, which still exist today, were around way back in the Triassic, and that they may have been closely related to stereospondylids. Here is an accessible summary of the research.

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