Articles for author: Sameen David

Sameen David

A Deadly Snapshot from the Triassic

Yale Basement Rediscovery: Triassic Proto-Croc Emerges as New Species After 75 Years

Northern New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch yielded a remarkable fossil in 1948 amid a mass of dinosaur bones, but the specimen languished in Yale University’s Peabody Museum basement for decades. Researchers recently confirmed it belonged to a previously unknown relative of modern crocodiles, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa. This finding illuminates the early evolutionary steps of crocodylomorphs toward ...

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North America's Oldest Pterosaur Emerges from Arizona's Volcanic Ash

North America’s Oldest Pterosaur Emerges from Arizona’s Volcanic Ash

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona – A team of paleontologists uncovered the jawbone of a small flying reptile that glided through Late Triassic skies 209 million years ago. This specimen, the earliest pterosaur known from North America, belonged to a new species called Eotephradactylus mcintireae. Preserved in a remote bone bed rich with volcanic ash, ...