Pre-mammalian reptile developed venom 100 million years before snakes

Monday, February 13, 2017 - 15:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Brooks HaysFeb. 13 (UPI) -- New fossil evidence suggests the first species to deploy venom did so 260 million years ago -- 100 million years before the first venomous snakes.

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