Photo shows a well-preserved fossil skeleton of a new reptile species, Tramuntanasaurus tiai, found in Mallorcan rocks in Spain, dating back 270 million years, undated. The new species of reptile is a moradisaurine captorrhinid, a group of herbivorous reptiles that lived only during the Permian, between 299 and 251 million years ago, and have no current representatives. Note: Licensed photo (Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont/Newsflash)
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26 June 2023
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A new tiny precursor of the dinosaurs has been unearthed by scientists excavating rocks on Spain's holiday island Mallorca. The creature - from the group moradisaurine captorhinids - was a primitive early reptile that predates the rise of the dinosaurs by 40 million years. The 50...