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“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 ...

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

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 ...