Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like traits.

What makes a snake a snake? The obvious answer is that legless, shudder-inducing shape. But a new batch of Jurassic snake fossils -- including what may be the world's oldest known snake -- offers a ...

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A new species of the fern Phlebopteris, P. tracyi n. sp., is described from the Jurassic Coon Hollow Formation in the Wallowa terrane in the Snake River Canyon, Oregon and Idaho. The leaf is as large ...

Jonathan Bailey was told he would "die in 10 seconds" if a snake bit him on the set of Jurassic World Rebirth. The 37-year-old actor plays paleontologist Dr Henry Loomis in the seventh installment of ...

A handout illustration shows a reconstruction of the Jurassic species Breugnathair elgolensis, which possessed characteristics both of lizards and snakes, and lived 167 million years ago, based on ...