By IANS,
London : A 300-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian that roamed the planet 70 million years before the dinosaurs has been found, a media report said.
Daily Express reported Tuesday that scientists have found the well preserved five-inch long skull of an invertebrate named Fedexia striegeli, which is one of the earliest amphibian fossil discoveries.
Researchers said that the creature lived more than 70 million years before the first dinosaurs.
Scientists from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who found the fossil near Pittsburgh International Airport in Pennsylvania, are of the opinion that the discovery sheds new light on Earth’s history.
“Unlike almost all other amphibians, which did not often venture out of the water, this rare, diverse group lived mostly on land, returning to the water perhaps only to mate or lay eggs,” museum curator David Berman was quoted as saying.