marine reptiles Content / marine reptiles Content for 51吃瓜黑料 Davis en Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic /curiosity/news/researchers-describe-new-reptile-platypus-early-triassic-0 <p>No animal alive today looks quite like a duck-billed platypus, a semi-aquatic, egg-laying&nbsp;mammal hailing from eastern Australia. 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&nbsp;<em>Eretmorhipis carrolldongi</em>&nbsp;from the lower Triassic period is described in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37754-6"><em>Scientific Reports</em></a>&nbsp;Jan. 24.&nbsp;</p> January 24, 2019 - 4:11pm Andy Fell /curiosity/news/researchers-describe-new-reptile-platypus-early-triassic-0