This Species of Ancient Scottish Reptile Is Part Snake and Part Lizard Get to know Breugnathair elgolensis, a half snake, half lizard that inhabited Jurassic-era Scotland.

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An ancient reptile’s fossilized skin reveals how it swam like a seal A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.

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This Reptile Sported Strange, Feather-Shaped Structures Around 247 Million Years Ago Meet Mirasaura grauvogeli, a small reptile from the Middle Triassic, whose frill of feather-shaped structures rethinks the evolution of early reptiles.

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Buried for 209 Million Years, This Tiny Winged Reptile Just Changed History In the sunbaked badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest, scientists uncovered a tiny jawbone that turned out to be North America’s oldest known pterosaur—a flying reptile that soared the skies over...

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Footprints Reveal When Ancient Flying Reptiles Mastered Ground Living All the science news you can handle in a single feed

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Fierce, Aquatic Reptilian Predators Disappeared After an Ancient Climate Change Event The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some other species.

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Fierce, Aquatic Reptilian Predators Disappeared After an Ancient Climate Change Event The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some other species.

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Fossil discovery shifts the origin of lizards back 35 million years A tiny lizard fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, is 205 million years old. It shifts Squamata origins back by 35 million years.

Fossil discovery shifts the origin of lizards back 35 million years: A tiny lizard fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, is 205 million years old. It shifts Squamata origins back by 35 million years.

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