Instead, they’re usually viewed as close relatives. The new fossil found in Brazil, however, could change that. “The most important part of this finding is its age,” says Rodrigo Temp ...

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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...

Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it. Dating showed the creature ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

Scientists from Brazil say a recently discovered fossil may help explain how dinosaurs evolved and came to rule the planet. The bones date back to approximately 237 million years ago, making them ...

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She showed it to Raymond Dart, her professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who had encouraged his students to bring in any interesting fossil relics. Dart was interested in ...

SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil - Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that ...