Yale study gives grandmother gecko a place of honor — and a new name
Helioscopus dickersonae lived in North America in the late Jurassic period, 100 million years earlier than any previously known early gecko relative.
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Helioscopus dickersonae lived in North America in the late Jurassic period, 100 million years earlier than any previously known early gecko relative.
Working together, Yale undergraduate Chase Brownstein and Professor Thomas Near have published three peer-reviewed studies of “living fossil” fish lineages.
Two new lizard species fill important gaps in the fossil record and offer tantalizing clues about the complexity of lizard evolution
Yale research has identified the oldest-known, definitive members of an evolutionary group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives.
The dinosaur fossil found in Mississippi that looks like an ostrich and is about as tall as a giraffe is helping scientists fill in the information gaps.