New species of Jurassic ‘sword dragon’ could help solve an evolutionary mystery
The ichthyosaur fossil was found in 2001 however has actually just recently been studied. (Image credit: Dean Lomax, Judy Massare, and Erin Maxwell) An almost total fossil skeleton discovered on…
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New Jurassic Lizard Species Has Confusing Set of Features Seen in Snakes and Geckos
Breugnathair elgolensis — a types of hook-toothed lizard that lived throughout the Middle Jurassic, about 167 million years earlier– shows a mosaic of physiological characteristics that is not present in…
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New Species of Jurassic Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered in China
A brand-new genus and types of eusauropod dinosaur has actually been determined from a fossilized partial skeleton with an almost total skull discovered in the Chinese province of Gansu. Skull…
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New Specimen of Rare Jurassic Dinosaur Unearthed in Colorado
Paleontologists from the Western University of Health Sciences, Brigham Young University, the Arizona Museum of Natural History and Auburn University have actually explained a brand-new specimen of Haplocanthosaurus based upon…
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Jurassic Pterosaur Had Unusually Short, but Stiff and Pointed Tail
Skiphosoura bavaricaa types of pterosaur that lived around 149 million years earlier in what is now southern Germany, bridges the spaces in between the early monofenestratan pterosaurs and the later…
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