Strange 275 million-year-old plant-eater with twisted jaws found in Brazil
March 09, 2026
March 09, 2026
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 9 -- The University of the Witwatersrand posted the following news:
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Strange 275 million-year-old plant-eater with twisted jaws found in Brazil
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Even for its time, Tanyka was a "living fossil" from a lineage that scientists thought had already gone extinct.
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an a . . .
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Strange 275 million-year-old plant-eater with twisted jaws found in Brazil
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Even for its time, Tanyka was a "living fossil" from a lineage that scientists thought had already gone extinct.
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an a . . .