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Otter-like Critter Swam Lakes, Rivers in Age of Dinosaurs

About 165 million years ago, a furry critter that swam like a platypus, hunted like an otter and had a tail similar to a beaver’s frolicked in the lakes and rivers of what is now China pursuing fish and salamanders, the oldest-known example of a semiaquatic lifestyle in mammalian evolutionary history.

We haven't written up this one. The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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