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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 could help explain the rise of ...

Paleontologists in southern Brazil have unearthed the fossilized remains of an ancient reptile with long, scimitar-like claws and a beak. The reptilian creature, named Venetoraptor gassenae by ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

The small predatory reptile lived among the largest apex predators. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil.

Along a river in southern Brazil, a new species of ancient reptile was discovered in the dirt. Rodrigo T. Müller (2024) Scientific Reports Before dinosaurs came to dominate every continent on the ...

BRASILIA, June 20 (Reuters) - A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs.

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...