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A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

A tiny lizard fossil, Cryptovaranoides microlanius, is 205 million years old. It shifts Squamata origins back by 35 million ...

Discovered in a quarry near Bristol, this 205-million-year-old fossil is the oldest modern-type lizard ever found.

and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa. Until recently, details about this group's most ...

Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world ... over the last 160 million years. The animal belongs to a species known as 'Notobatrachus ...

But a UC Riverside-led team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan ... "Like many modern-day animal groups, ecdysozoans were prevalent in the Cambrian fossil record and we can see evidence ...

They may not be the oldest animals on Earth ... Its evolutionary history positions it as a “living fossil,” since it is the only surviving member of the entire lizard family Lanthanotidae ...