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Global Times reports that the approximately 125-million-year-old fossil is the earliest confirmed swimming mammal discovered to date. ARCHAEOLOGICAL

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A newly identified fossil from the Early Cretaceous of China shows that a small mammal living about 125 million years ago possessed clear adaptations for a semi-aquatic lifestyle, making it the earliest confirmed swimming mammal discovered to date.