Researchers With Newly Discovered Specimen

Calvin So (L), a doctoral student at George Washington University, and Arjan Mann, a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist, pose with the fossil skull of the Permian period proto-amphibian Kermitops in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History fossil collection, in Washington, U.S., in this undated handout picture. Phillip R. Lee./Handout via REUTERS /File Photo