MEXICO: Seven years ago, museum curator Christian Sidor showed Jack Conrad a fossil he dug up in the Bridger Formation of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming. “Hey, what’s this?” Sidor asked.
Conrad stared at the find with fascination. Could it be? It looked like the ancient remains of a reptile that remarkably walks on water. The fossil looked incredibly time-worn, far older than any he had ever seen, but he was sure. “It’s the Jesus lizard,” Conrad said, muttering in awe.
It wasn’t just a Jesus lizard. It might be the Jesus lizard. Research authored by Conrad, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, placed the fossil at 48 million years old, at least 5 million years older than a previously discovered skeleton. The study was published Wednesday in the Journal PLOS One.
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