Sunday, 15 November 2026

German palaeontologists find skull of new dicynodont Bulbasaurus phylloxyron in Africa

Fossil skull of Bulbasaurus held in a hand beside a ruler against a black background.

The skull of Bulbasaurus phylloxyron, a representative of a new variety of herbivorous mammal-like reptiles, the dicynodonts. It was dug up in Africa by German palaeontologists, who did not name it after the Pokémon!

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