“unlike other Permian and Triassic gliding forms, the Chinese genus Xianglong is a true lizard”. He adds: “This is also the first fossil evidence that unequivocally demonstrates an ...

is famous for its abundance of Triassic wildlife. The site previously presented species such as gliding reptiles and one of the earliest known lizards. Called Threordatoth chasmatos, the species ...

Over the past few decades, the site has yielded fossils of gliding reptiles ... an extinct group of lizard-like animals that thrived during the Triassic. While they would have looked like lizards ...

Scientists have discovered a new lizard-like species that lurked in ... Some 240 million years ago, the Triassic predator Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis skulked, nearly motionless, in the ...

They were more diverse than the ancestors of modern lizards during the Triassic, performing similar ecological roles that lizards do today. 'During the early Triassic the world was still dominated by ...

The discovery potentially shows that today’s lizards likely originated in the Late Triassic period (about 200 million years ago) and not during the Middle Jurassic as previously believed.

While most ancient reptiles crawled, scuttled and hopped through their prehistoric habitats, one stealthy creature opted for an airborne technique: gliding. Tiny, "dragonlike" Coelurosauravus ...

Nick Fraser tells Jim Al-Khalili about unearthing ancient reptiles from the Triassic and an exciting ... In 2002, he unearthed a new species of gliding reptile in Virginia, USA.

The collection also holds the gliding lizard Kuehneosaurus from Triassic fissure sites in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. the donation of the Gardner Collection from Hordle in Hampshire, UK, in 1981 ...