Un equip internacional descriu la nova espècie de geco Geiseleptes delfinoi a partir d'un fòssil d'uns 45 milions d'anys d'antiguitat. Les restes van ser trobades en un jaciment alemany el 1933 i demostren la persistència d'aquest grup a Europa des de l'Eocè. La nova espècie seria d'hàbits nocturns com els dragons actuals.

New research published today in eLife by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the University of Bristol (UB) moves back the moment of the radiation of squamates ―the group of reptiles that includes lizards, snakes and worm lizards― to the Jurassic, a long time before current estimates.

An international research team describes a new specimen of the mid-Cretaceous reptile genus Oculudentavis in an article published in Current Biology. Despite its bird-like appearance, comparative morphology and phylogenetic analyses prove that this genus was a lizard instead of a small avian dinosaur as it was thought when it was first described.