The first fossil of an amphibious ichthyosaur has been discovered in China, and the scientists who made the discovery say it fills a longstanding gap in the fossil record. Paleontologists have long known that ichthyosaurs descended from similar reptiles that lived on land.
But there was no fossil showing a transitional creature adapted for life on land as well as in water. Dr. Ryosuke Motani, a professor in the department of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis, said in a written statement: 'There's nothing that prevents it from coming onto land.'
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