Tiny eyes make a bizarre, ancient platypus-like reptile even weirder
The creature lived about 250 million years ago
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SMALL-EYED SWIMMER Two new fossils of the ancient marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi (one shown at top; outline below) are the first to include the animal’s skull.
L. Cheng et al/Scientific Reports 2019