A team of paleontologists, led by Prof. Michael Caldwell, discovered 140-167 million-year-old fossils of four ancient legged snakes in Canada.

The discovery shifts the origin of the whole lizard-snake group, called Squamata ... The post World’s oldest lizard fossil identified appeared first on Talker.

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal Titanoboa in ancient Colombia to the transitional form Eophis in England and ...

It is also the oldest monstersauria found so far. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, said on Nov. 25 that the jawbone fossil is the first from ...

“My intuition says that the oldest is a terrestrial species, those that we call fossorial snakes ... “To this extent, it bears resemblance to the Aniloideas and the snake fossil Dinilysia, two groups ...