Lizards wandered the world along with the dinosaurs. And even if small, they proved tougher, as they survived into the era of the mammals. A 130-million-year-old fossil found in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan and described by the journal "Paleontology" is the oldest found plant-eating lizard, a discovery with implications in both the evolution of lizards and plants.
The jaw and skull suggest the lizard, called Kuwajimalla kagaensiswas, was 10 to 12 in (25 to 30 cm) long. The previously oldes...
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