Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil

Sunday, November 29, 2015 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle -- how snakes lost their limbs. The findings show snakes did not lose their limbs in order to live in the sea, as was previously suggested.

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