Triassic Caecilian Fossils
- A team of palaeontologists has discovered the first Triassic-era caecilian fossils, which are the oldest of their kind.
- The find could help fill a nearly 90 million-year gap in the historical record of caecilians, where no fossils have been found before.
- Before the new find, the gap in the fossil record obscured the early evolutionary history of caecilians.
- Fossil caecilians are extraordinarily rare, and they are found accidentally.
- Modern-day caecilians are amphibians with no limbs and cylindrical bodies with compact “bullet-shaped” skulls that let them burrow ....
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