New Zealand’s crawling animals, who have some wonderful resemblance to the ancestors of the lizard found in England.
Scientists announced on Wednesday that they had discovered the most famous member of the lizard family in southwestern England, a small creature that used surprisingly large teeth to hunt cockroaches 242 million years ago.
The ancient crawling animal, who lived shortly before the height of the dinosaur, was so small that his entire body could fit into the palm of the human hand.
“The new animal is unlike anything to be discovered yet, and he has forced us to think about the evolution of lizards, snakes and tataras,” said Dan Mark of Bristol University, “said Dan Mark of Bristol University in a statement.
The skeleton of the oldest famous member of the lipidosuria order, a family of crawling animals, was found in 2015, found on the coast of Devashim, a Devon in southwestern England.
But to find out what he had taken to the scientists, and the discovery was announced in a study in the journal. Nature Wednesday
The main author of the study, Mark, said, “The new fiancée does not show any of our expectations.”
The roof of modern lizards and snakes has partially tied to the skull and many teeth – but it was neither in the ancient ancestors.
“Not only this but there are some surprisingly big teeth than his close relatives.”
It also has a bone from cheeks to jaw, a feature in which it is only joint with individual tathara, often known as “living fiancé”.
“New Best” used the “New Best” for piercing and piercing his pesticides, said Michael Benton, a co -author from Bristol University. “
The fossils were difficult to study because it is so small – the skull is only 1.5 cm (an inch of 0.6) wide – and it was stored in a large rock.
As a result, British researchers scan it using European Sincroton Radiation Facility, which acts as a very large microscope, which illuminates X -ray more than 100 billion times more than those used in hospitals.
Vincent Fernandez, a facility expert in France, said that Sancutrin “allowed scientists to zoom in big things and get very high resolution images.”
Scientists have been discovered after the formation of Helisby Sandstone, the ancestors of the Chhadkali Aggressantosis Hales Bipitra.
More information:
The beginning of feeding to feed the oldest of the most famous lipidosor and lipidosor ‘, Nature (2025) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09496-9
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Reference: The oldest ancestors of the oldest lizard in England (2025, September 14) recovered from https://phys.org/news/2025-oldest-lizard-ensstor-ngland.html on September 14, 2025.
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