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Independent: A tiny but feisty species of amphibian that lived in the shadows of dinosaurs has been discovered by scientists.
The discovery of the wesserpeton fills a gap in the evolutionary history of a now-extinct group, the albanerpetontids, according to researchers at the University of Portsmouth.
The amphibian, nicknamed "Wessie", was about the size of a small, modern-day newt and unlike most amphibians, albanerpetontids had a scaly skin and eyelids, showing that they spent most of their time on land.......
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Tiny but feisty prehistoric wesserpeton amphibian discovered
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 29th, 2013
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