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This image provided by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs shows paleontology curator Spencer Lucas talking about Gordodon, a specialized plant-eating reptile, during an interview outside ...

A fossil of Atopodentatus unicus is seen alongside a reconstruction showing what it would have looked like in life is shown in this image released on 6 May 2016. Photo: Reuters Washington: It was a ...

The world's first plant-eating marine reptile had wide jaw shaped like a hammerhead, and along the edge, it had peg-like teeth. Fossil of crocodile-sized reptile found, it lived 242 million years ago ...

Two years ago, when paleontologists first described the skeleton of the croc-sized marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus, they knew it was weird, but not this weird. New specimens of this Triassic ...

A bizarre crocodile-sized ’hammerhead’ creature, that lived 242 million years ago in what today is southern China may have been the earliest known example of a plant-eating marine reptile, researchers ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

New York: A crocodile-sized sea reptile, that lived 242 million years ago in what today is southern China, represents the world's oldest species of herbivorous marine reptile, new research has found.

Newly-discovered fossils of the Triassic marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus have revealed that the animal had a bizarre hammerhead-shaped jaw apparatus. It used its strange jaw to feed on plants, ...