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Paleontologists in India just identified a gargantuan prehistoric snake that roamed the Earth 47 million years ago. The ...

A team of paleontologists, led by Prof. Michael Caldwell, discovered 140-167 million-year-old fossils of four ancient legged snakes in Canada.

“From a developmental perspective, this could be one of the most important fossils ever found,” evolutionary biologist Martin Cohn of the University of Florida, Gainesville, told Nature. “The ...

further illustrating the ecological dynamics of lizards and snakes in the fossil record[4]. Finally, the evolutionary origins of squamates have been traced back to the Triassic, with new ...

Paleobiologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. found the four-legged snake fossil in Solnhofen, Germany’s Bürgermeister Müller Museum in 2012; the relic was apparently ...