{
  "id": 17186452,
  "title": "Otter-like Critter Swam Lakes, Rivers in Age of Dinosaurs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/otter-like-critter-swam-lakes-rivers-in-age-of-dinosaurs",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T04:04:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun",
    "slug": "the-japan-news-by-the-yomiuri-shimbun",
    "url": "https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/news-services/reuters/20261030-356168/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}