Oldest plant eating lizard

In 2008, the discovery of the world’s oldest herbivorous (plant-eating) lizard was announced. Known from a 130-million-year-old fossil jaw and skull bones unearthed in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan, this significant new prehistoric reptile, which lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, has been formally named Kuwajimalla kagaensis, and researchers estimate that it measured 25-30 cm in total length. It is 30 million years older than North America’s Dicothodon, the previous record-holder, and its very existence suggests that flowering plants may have been in existence millions of years earlier than previously thought.