Ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern Hemisphere

ScienceDaily
Jun 17, 2024, 5:34 pm92 pts
An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million years ago, at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, New Zealand was located on the southern polar coast of a vast…

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