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Surprise in Texas after a 3.6-meter skeleton of a dinosaur that was one of the great marine predators was found in an excavation
Before Texas was what it is known today, it was a vast sea full of marine reptiles. Now, one of those creatures has been found - its remains, that is - during construction work. St ...
Oldest footprints of first ‘reptile’ found by fossil hunters
The creature could lay eggs on land, unlike amphibians. It was part of a large group known as “amniotes,” which would evolve ...
Fossil of pregnant Icthyosaur “Fiona”, a prehistoric sea reptile, found in Chile -- Key details inside
In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...
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Mysterious Fossil Found in Museum Storage Turned Out to Be a New, Extinct Lizard Species
But the discovery suggests a similar reptile had prehistoric roots in the region. Bourque, a fossil preparator in the Florida Museum’s vertebrate paleontology division, and his colleague Edward ...
Ancient Origins: Reptiles Appeared 40 Million Years Earlier, Show Australian Fossils
John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...
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Earliest-known 'reptile' footprints discovered by amateur fossil hunters in Victoria
Amateur palaeontologists have found the ... the origin of reptiles and other land-based creatures by 40 million years. Builder Craig Eury and winemaker John Eason were fossil hunting near ...