“After being properly prepared, it became evident that (the new species was) part of a rare group of herbivorous/omnivorous crocodyliforms from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (around 120 million ...

The skin, which they say likely belonged to a reptile, is estimated to come from the Paleozoic era, between 541 million to 252 million years ago. It dates back at least 290 million years.

He took a second look, and lo and behold, small white fossils poked out from the bright red ... reptiles also have “rectangular-shaped” osteoderms on their backs, bony deposits found in the ...