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Metoposaurus

No Daily Mail, a 230 million year old amphibian is not a dinosaur..

The Daily Fail have struck again, this time the poor victim being the rather cool fossil, Metoposaurus diagnosticusMetoposaurus is an amphibious, er, amphibian from Germany, Italy, Poland and Portugal, and a member of a group called temnospondyls. However, three times in an article published yesterday, the innocent amphibian is labeled as a ‘dinosaur’ – what did it ever to to deserve such dishonour!

Screenshot from the article (source)

Screenshot from the article (source)

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