While still in the womb, humans have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands

Research involving a non-invasive scan of living human embryos shows that some muscles, thought to have been abandoned by our mammalian ancestors 250 million years ago, are still present before birth. They’re among the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution yet seen in humans. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/evolutionary-remnants-muscles-human-embryos…

Human Babies In the Womb Have Lizard-Like Hand Muscles

dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands that most will lose before they are born, medical scans reveal. They are probably one of the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution seen in humans yet, biologists say, in the journal Development. They date them as 250 million years old — a…

Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur’s stomach

A near complete fossil of a lizard has been found inside the stomach of a microraptor, a kind of feathered dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209649-unknown-species-of-lizard-found-inside-a-gliding-dinosaurs-stomach/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…