Scientists Just Found a 240-Million-Year-Old "Mother of All Lizards"
Wow.
SARAH KAPLAN, THE WASHINGTON POST
31 MAY 2018
Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined.
The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, lizards and legless worm-looking creatures known as amphisbaenians, is the largest order of living land vertebrates on the planet.
https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-megachirella-the-240-million-year-old-mother-of-all-lizards
