Thursday, July 19, 2018

99m year old baby snake fossil found in amber - first known

The snake skeleton is almost complete except for the skull. Entombed in a chunk of amber, it includes 97 tiny vertebrae, most with their feathery ribs still attached. The unique sample comes from Myanmar.

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