Fossil Snakes


X-rays Reveal Ancient Snake's Hidden Leg   Live Science - February 8, 2011
A new look at a 95-million-year-old fossilized snake reveals two tiny leg bones attached to the slithery creature's pelvis. A three-dimensional reconstruction of the bones could help researchers understand how snakes evolved to lose their legs. The fossil, found in Lebanon, is from an era when snakes had not yet completely lost the hind limbs left by their lizard ancestors. A much-debated question among paleontologists is whether these leggy ancestors were ocean-living swimmers or land-dwelling burrowing lizards.

World's Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species   National Geographic - February 5, 2010



  Fossil hunters discover largest snakes ever to have slithered on earth   Guardian - February 5, 2009


  Largest prehistoric snake on record discovered in Colombia   PhysOrg - February 5, 2009


Biggest Snake Discovered; Was Longer Than a Bus   National Geographic - February 5, 2009


Largest snake 'as long as a bus'   BBC - February 5, 2009


Ancient serpent shows its 2 leg BBC - April 10, 2008


Canada: Ancient reptile tracks unearthed BBC - October 17, 2007


Snakes Evolved on Land, New Fossil Find Suggests National Geographic - April 20 , 2006




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