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Old May 30th, 2018 #120
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The mother of all lizards found in Italian Alps


Scientists said Wednesday they had tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new.

Scans of the fossilised skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today's lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an international team wrote in the science journal Nature.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-mother...-alps.html#jCp