{"id":1861,"date":"2026-07-21T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/3-5-million-year-old-fossil-from-japan-reveals-lost-lineage-of-giant-salamanders\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:15:47","slug":"3-5-million-year-old-fossil-from-japan-reveals-lost-lineage-of-giant-salamanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/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":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14932-Limnospondylus-ajimuensis.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Life reconstruction of Limnospondylus ajimuensis. Image credit: Kanon Tanaka.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/limnospondylus-ajimuensis-14932.html\">3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of Giant Salamanders<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}