Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
- Written by Alessandro Palci, Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology, Flinders University
Impression of _Megachirella wachtleri_ walking through the vegetation about 240 million years ago in what is now the Dolomites region of Italy.Davide Bonadonna , Author providedAustralia is famous for its many lizards and snakes, but where do they all come from?
Published today in Nature, a new analysis of an ancient fossil found in the Italian...