Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona

A tourist sightseeing Petrified Forest National Park. Photo Courtesy: Petrified Forest National Park Official website

PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Researchers have discovered fossils of a tiny burrowing reptile among a vast expanse of petrified wood in eastern Arizona. The new species has been named Skybalonyx skapter, a part of a group known as drepanosaurs from the Triassic Period, about 220 million years ago.Petrified Forest National Park outside… Continue reading Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona