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205-million-year-old lizard is the world’s oldest, discovered in a quarry near Bristol UK

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A tiny skeleton became the subject of a big debate as scientists went back and forth over the identity of a reptile retrieved from a quarry near Bristol, UK. Now, the authors of the original study that crowned it the world’s oldest lizard have addressed criticism made about their discovery, confirming "that the little Bristol reptile is indeed the world’s oldest modern-type lizard.”

https://www.iflscience.com/205-million-year-old-lizard-is-the-worlds-oldest-discovered-in-a-quarry-near-bristol-76991

The study is published in Royal Society Open Science.

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