Hook-Toothed Specimen: One Of The Oldest Fossil Lizards Ever Found

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis eating a mammal. Credit: Mick Ellison/©AMNH One of the oldest relatively complete fossil […]

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Hook-Toothed Specimen: One Of The Oldest Fossil Lizards Ever Found
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis eating a mammal. Credit: Mick Ellison/©AMNH One of the oldest relatively complete fossil […]
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