APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A new species of prehistoric lizard was discovered in Texas by a researcher from right here in Northeast Wisconsin, but she didn’t have to do the type of digging you’d expect.
History Museum at the Castle specialist Amelia Zietlow helmed the discovery of the Tylosaurus rex, or T. rex — a type of mosasaur. Zietlow published her and her co-author’s findings last Thursday.
“They themselves are not dinosaurs. They are literally lizards. So, their closest living relatives are things like Komodo dragons and snakes,” Zietlow explained. “The new species that we discovered lived about 80 million years ago, and most of them were found in Texas.”…