The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether ...

These fossil ankle bones look like they're built to do something similar." An illustration of the newly described Avisaurus darwini, whose unusual foot bones indicate that it was one of the ...

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The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids ...

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