Mummified, spread-eagled Triassic ‘shovel lizards’ look like roadkill and likely died in a drought
Home News An artist's reconstruction of lystrosaurs in the early Triassic. These bulldog-faced beaked animals survived a mass extinction, but new research suggests they still suffered from climate change-induced drought. (Image credit: Gina Viglietti) About 251 million years ago, groups of pig-size herbivores with tusks and beaks huddled together, died, shriveled up and then fossilized…