Evolution: lizards just became 35 millions years older

 

Image couttesy of Lavinia Gandolfi.

Joel Kontinen 

Scientists at the Natural History Museum have decided that a reptile  cryptovaranoides microlanius was truly a reptile. it moves the origin of reptiles from the later Middle Jurassic period to the Late Triassic period (237-201 million years ago), so that according to evolution they have existed for 35 million years longer than previously thought.

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Bristol: Fossil shows lizards millions of years older than thought BBC News 3 December,