Ancient armour of a prehistoric reptile ‘overlap like roof tiles’
Palaeontologists have created the first 3D reconstruction of the tough scales of a prehistoric reptile that ‘overlapped like roof tiles’. The UK team used CT scans to map the tough body armour of an aetosaur, a prehistoric reptile that lived 225 million years ago, based on Scottish fossils. The aetosaurs were heavily-armoured reptiles that lived … Read more