{"id":921580,"date":"2026-07-21T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/3-5-million-year-old-fossil-from-japan-reveals-lost-lineage-of-giant-salamanders\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:12:42","slug":"3-5-million-year-old-fossil-from-japan-reveals-lost-lineage-of-giant-salamanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/3-5-million-year-old-fossil-from-japan-reveals-lost-lineage-of-giant-salamanders\/","title":{"rendered":"3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of Giant Salamanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been identified from three fossil vertebrae, filling a major gap in the fossil record of one of the world\u2019s oldest amphibian lineages.<br \/>\nThe post 3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of Giant Salamanders appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/limnospondylus-ajimuensis-14932.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Georgianna Schewe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been identified from three fossil vertebrae, filling a major gap in the fossil record of one of the world\u2019s oldest amphibian lineages. The post 3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25191,25184,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fossil","category-million-year-old","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}