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About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell. We know this because they left some of the most incredibly well-preserved dinosaur ‘mummies’ ever found, consisting of clay molds of features such as skin, spikes, and the first known example of hooves in a reptile. These …

In 2006, a study published in the journal Biology Letters described a fossil unlike any ever seen before. It captured a prehistoric reptile that lived around 125 million years ago. That, in itself, wasn’t terribly surprising, but the fact that it had two heads really, really was. Bicephalism describes a quirk in animal development that results in an individual with …

Enigmatic Jurassic reptile looks like a mix of snake and lizard  Reuters Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate  Nature 167-Million-Year-Old Lizard With Snake-Like Jaws Puzzles Scientists  SciTechDaily New Jurassic Lizard Species Has Confusing Set of Features Seen in Snakes and Geckos  Sci.News This Species of Ancient Scottish Reptile Is Part Snake and Part Lizard  Discover Magazine Source link

Scottish reptile fossil showing mix of snake and lizard from dinosaur era baffles scientists  Dawn Enigmatic Jurassic reptile looks like a mix of snake and lizard  Reuters Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate  Nature 167-Million-Year-Old Lizard With Snake-Like Jaws Puzzles Scientists  SciTechDaily New Jurassic Lizard Species Has Confusing Set of Features Seen in Snakes and Geckos  Sci.News Source link

Scottish reptile fossil showing mix of snake and lizard from dinosaur era baffles scientists  Dawn Enigmatic Jurassic reptile looks like a mix of snake and lizard  Reuters Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate  Nature 167-Million-Year-Old Lizard With Snake-Like Jaws Puzzles Scientists  SciTechDaily Mysterious 160 million-year-old creature unearthed on Isle of Skye is part lizard, part snake  Live Science Source link

Brennan Stokkermans The reptile has been given a Gaelic name The fossil of a previously unknown reptile that had snake-like fangs and lived about 167 million years ago has been discovered on Skye. Experts said their research had revealed it to be a new species and family of Jurassic animals linked to the origins of lizards and snakes. It has …

A study has identified a new species of plesiosaur named Plesionectes longicollum that is thought to have swam the oceans during the Toarcian period, nearly 183 million years ago. Excavated from a quarry in Germany in 1978, the specimen has been stored in collections at the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History for almost 50 years. The new research investigates the anatomy …

New long-necked marine reptile species discovered in Germany’s famous Jurassic fossil beds  Phys.org Paleontologists Unveil New Species of Plesiosaur  Sci.News Forgotten Jurassic Fossil Reveals a Long-Necked Sea Monster Hidden for Decades  SciTechDaily New ancient marine reptile species discovered in Germany’s famous Jurassic fossil beds  EurekAlert! 183-million-year-old sea monster species found hiding in German fossil bed  Interesting Engineering Source link

Reconstruction of Triassic Era Reptile (Mirasaura grauvogeli) in natural forest habitat-Credit: Gabriel Ugueto A newly-declared species of 247 million-year-old Triassic reptile and its ridiculously large crest has left scientists scratching their heads. The crest is unlike anything seen before, and was neither made out of skin, as in the case of pterosaur crests, nor feathers, as in the case of …

Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And that’s resulting in some strange new findings about long-extinct animals, showing us that they’re even weirder than we imagined. A paper published today in Nature offers a re-analysis of a fossilized Mirasaura grauvogeli, a 247-million-year-old …