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230-million-year-old Texas reptile had bizarre 'dinosaurian' features

2016-10-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] A newly described species of extinct reptile that roamed in Texas more than 200 million years ago had a strikingly dome-shaped head, much like that of dinosaurs that lived 100 million years or so later. Like the wings of pterosaurs and birds and the limblessness of snakes and some amphibians, the study reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 22 offers an example of convergent evolution between distantly related species of vertebrates. “We…

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