The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.

The species dates back 35 million years. The post World’s oldest lizard fossil identified appeared first on Talker.

While researcher Valentina Rossi was studying a fossil long believed to be a 280 million-year-old outline of a novel reptile species, she noticed something odd about the reptile’s skin — it ...

The scientists on the team, who are from the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, the Ono City Board of Education and elsewhere, also said a fossil of a mammal-like reptile has been ...

AN ANCIENT lizard dating back 205million years has been confirmed to be the “world’s oldest” in a fresh study. The fossilised ...

New Jersey marl pit where bones were discovered. USGIS "The Fossil Reptiles of New Jersey" originally appeared in volumes 1 and 2 of American Naturalist magazine in 1868. By the time of his death ...

In 2020 a father and daughter found another similar jawbone. Experts now say the fossils are from two giant ichthyosaur reptiles, which could have been 25m long. That is bigger than a huge ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived ...

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world.

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...