#  New study refutes 75-year-old belief in reptile evolution 

 





October 07, 2020

 

 

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Research by MCZ postdoctoral fellow Tiago R. Simões has provided an extensive database that is helping scientists better understand the evolution of reptiles. Along with MCZ Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, [Stephanie Pierce](/people/stephanie-e-pierce), and other collaborators, the findings are described in a recently published [paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17190-9) in Nature Communications, and featured in the [Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/10/new-timeline-on-reptile-evolution-rebuts-long-held-theories/).



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Vertebrate Paleontology ](/news/vertebrate-paleontology)