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Monster salamanders found in mass grave

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25-03-2015 12:39am

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32016625

A car-sized salamander could hardly strike out for a far-off lake if its own waterway dried up.

That makes "big mass graves of monstrous amphibians" a known feature of the Triassic, Dr Brusatte said.

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"They're relatives of salamanders in the same way that the duck-billed platypus is a distant relative of ours," she said.

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#2 25-03-2015 7:24pm
Adam Khor

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"They're relatives of salamanders in the same way that the duck-billed platypus is a distant relative of ours,"

So, calling them "monster salamanders" is the equivalent of finding a giant platypus fossil and calling it a "monster hominid"... :pac:

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