Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Prized fossil find illuminates the lives of lizards in the Age of Dinosaurs

01/31/2017 02:09 PM EST

an illustrated life reconstruction of Magnuviator ovimonsensis

Paleontologists at the University of Washington, picking through a bounty of fossils from Montana, have discovered something unexpected--a new species of lizard from the late dinosaur era, whose closest relatives roamed in faraway Asia.


Full story at http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/01/24/prized-fossil-find-the-oldest-most-complete-iguanian-in-the-americas-illuminates-the-lives-of-lizards-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/

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University of Washington


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