The Mammal-Like Reptiles of South Africa: and the Origin of Mammals. Dr. Robert Broom. (Issued under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Research Board, Union of South ...

It blows holes in many of our classic ideas of Triassic ‘mammal-like reptiles’,” said Dr Grzegorz Niedzweidzi, part of a team from Sweden’s Uppsala University who assisted the excavation.

Learn how the Gorgonopsian fossil was found in Mallorca, dating back 270 million years, and was discovered far from other ...

The scientists on the team, who are from the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, the Ono City Board of Education and elsewhere, also said a fossil of a mammal-like reptile has been ...

Within the synapsids, mammals arose from the mammal-like reptiles. The main evolutionary trend during the Mesozoic was the huge radiation of diapsids. The diapsids are a monophyletic group - including ...

Scientists count fossilised growth rings in teeth like tree-rings to find out how long the earliest mammals lived. (Credit: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia) (CN) — Using an examination of their fossilized ...

Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other reptiles in the same group (previously called 'mammal-like reptiles' and now called ...

While we can easily distinguish a creature like a jaguar from a reptile or a bird in the modern world, however, mammals as we know them are the result of hundreds of millions of years of ...