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Scientists have recently discovered a 240 million year-old lizard! The Megachirella wachtleri is only 3 inches long, but it is the ancestor of all living lizards and snakes! The Triassic period fossil was found in the Dolomite mountains in Italy 15 years ago, but new technology has revealed the lizard’s monumental importance in understanding their evolution.
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Watch where you’re walking; you might discover a 475 million year-old fossil, like Ryleigh Taylor! The 11 year-old found a trilobite fossil in Tennessee. Trilobites are arthropods related to the horseshoe crab. She and her mom, who home-schools her, contacted a paleobiologist to investigate its age. Ryleigh wants to display her fossil in a museum for all to see!
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10 and 12 year-old boys in Vicksburg Mississippi were wandering through plowed up dirt in their yard when they found a mastodon jawbone! Caid and Shawn Sellers and their cousin Michael Mahaltic pulled the prehistoric bone into the house to show their parents, and a museum confirmed their discovery. The boys plan to keep their exciting fossil!
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The age of dinosaurs wasn’t only for giant creatures. 127 million years ago, birds the size of grasshoppers existed! The tiny birds, with teeth and clawed fingers on their wings, were less than 2 inches long. The enantiornithine fossil from the Cretaceous Period was found in Spain at the Las Hoyas fossil site.
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A dinosaur fossil found in the nineteenth century is still providing new data. The Compsognathus longipes ate a lizard 150 million years ago but died before digesting it. The lizard has been reclassified as a new species. Researchers named it Schoenesmahl dyspepsia, which translates to “beautiful meal that is difficult to digest.”
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Scientists unearthed 215 fossilized pterosaur eggs in China, including 16 that contained preserved embryos. Pterosaurs were flying vertebrates that lived 120 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. Researchers think the soft-shelled 3 inch long eggs were so well preserved because a flood washed them into the bottom of a lake.
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