Tuesday 7 April 2015

Study resolves reptilian family tree


Study resolves reptilian family tree

A new study has helped settle the controversial relationships among the major groups of lizards and snakes, and it sheds light on the origins of a group of giant fossil lizards. New research sheds light on the evolutionary relationships of living and extinct reptiles. This skeleton belonged to a mosasaur, a carnivorous marine lizard that died out with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago [Credit: WikiCommons]Squamate... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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