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The ancestor of lizards came out of the museum closet! Tagged as another creep |

Officials at the University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum in the UK announced yesterday that they had identified a ‘mislabelled’ fossil from the 1950s in the museum’s storage cupboard as the ancestor of today’s lizards. It was emphasized that this discovery, contrary to what is known, brings back the appearance of lizards and reptiles belonging to similar families by 35 million years. discovered by Dr. David Whiteside and his team X-rayed the fossil and revealed that the specimen is related to modern lizards.

Dr. stating that this is the most important discovery of recent years. Whiteside described the discovery process this way; “I first identified the specimen in a cabinet full of Clevosaurus remains in the storage rooms of the Natural History Museum in London, where I was a Research Fellow… Our specimen was simply labeled ‘Clevosaurus and another reptile.’ As we continued to study the specimen, we became increasingly convinced that it was more closely related to modern lizards than to the Tuatara group. “We did an X-ray scan of the fossils in college, which allowed us to reconstruct the fossil in three dimensions and see all the little bones hidden in the rock.”

(DHA)

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