Cryptovaranoides True Identity

Cryptovaranoides was described last year, and shook up what we thought we knew about lizard evolution. But some people doubted the result that it was a lizard. So that's what this paper looked at, was it a lizard, and the closer look suggests it wasn't a lizard but a related to a group which may have behaved very similarly to lizards.

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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...

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