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Did Early Snakes Burrow, Swim or Crawl? 80‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Suggests: All Three
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Enrico de Lazaro
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Paleontologists have identified a new 80-million-year-old snake fossil, Tametara mirim, in Brazil that suggests early snakes were capable of burrowing, swimming, and crawling. This discovery provides critical evidence in the long-standing debate regarding the evolutionary transition of snakes from lizards.
Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating the long-running debate over whether their ancestors burrowed underground, swam in the sea or crawled the surface.
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