Fossil scan reveals how snakes became limbless

Saturday, November 28, 2015 - 12:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Marilyn MalaraEDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Comparisons between modern snake skulls and the 90 million-year-old fossil suggest snakes lost their limbs in order to burrow on land.

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