'Lizard King' fossil shows giant reptiles coexisted with mammals during globally warm past

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 19:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Some 40 million years before rock and roll singer Jim Morrison's lyrics earned him the moniker "the Lizard King," an actual king lizard roamed the hot tropical forests of Southeast Asia, competing with mammals for food and other resources.

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