Abstract: The specimen came from a 289 million-year-old fossil deposit and might offer clues to how skin evolved.
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Dry, scaly skin may be one of the least fun parts of winter. But in the broad scheme of things, a tough, watertight hide is part of what enabled the ancestors of modern reptiles, birds and mammals to move inland while their thin-skinned amphibian cousins remained close to water.
Source: The New York Times
Category: Science
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2024-01-11T16:00:08+0000
By Kate Golembiewski