A specimen retrieved from a cupboard of the Natural History Museum in London has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic and not the Middle Jurassic as previously thought. A specimen ...

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Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

A recent study published in Royal Society Open Science confirmed that the 205-million-year-old fossil named Cryptovaranoides ...

The fossilised remains of a small, sharp-toothed lizard, left in a cupboard for more than half a century, have pushed back the origins of the group that encompasses modern snakes and lizards by tens ...

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Reconstruction of the most complete fossil lizard found in Australia, a 15 million year old relative of our modern blue tongues and social skinks named Egernia gillespieae, reveals the creature was ...

CT scan showing the left side of the lizard head beside the fossil showing the right-hand side. Credit: David Whiteside, Sophie Chambi-Trowell, Mike Benton and Natural History Museum UK CT scan ...