Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic

Andy Fell — January 24, 2019 - 4:11pm

No animal alive today looks quite like a duck-billed platypus, a semi-aquatic, egg-laying 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 Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is described in the journal Scientific Reports Jan. 24.

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Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic