Fossil found in drawer is oldest known modern lizard
The fossilized remains of a small, sharp-toothed lizard, left in a closet for more than half a century, pushed back the origins of the group that encompasses modern snakes and lizards by tens of millions of years. The specimen was collected in the 1950s from a quarry near Tortworth in Gloucestershire by the late fossil …
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