Fossils from Skye are of some of the world's oldest salamanders, say experts Researchers analysed 166-million-year-old fossils of a type of animal called Marmorerpeton They found it has several ...

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This story ran in the April 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. More than 20 million years ago a salamander hatchling less than three-quarters of an inch long met a traumatic end.