Evolution in action: Lizards losing limbs
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 14:50
in Biology & Nature
Some slender Australian lizards called skinks have gone from being five-fingered to legless (like most snakes) in just 3.6 million years, a new study finds. That's a blink of an eye in geologic time.
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