On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil is unearthed that provides an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of a group of organisms. This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ...

Snakes may have wandered about on legs for 70 million years before becoming the slithering serpents we see today. Our understanding of how snakes evolved their long, legless bodies and highly mobile ...

Hidden for 95 million years beneath layers of sediment, the remarkablywell-preserved skull of an ancient legged snake species — Najash rionegrina — has now revealed a chapter of evolutionary history ...

AN ‘extraoardinary’ fossil belonging to an ancient snake with two hind legs has been uncovered in Argentina. The creature has been named Najash, after the leggy biblical snake Nahash. The new fossil ...

New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles. The fossil discoveries published in Science Advances have revealed they possessed hind legs ...

In February 2013, Fernando Garberoglio was searching for fossils in the La Buitrera Paleontological Area, a vast region in Argentina’s Río Negro province. Then an undergraduate paleontology student at ...

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Scientists have found fossils of a legged snake with “hips” – a specimen that could be the most primitive snake ever unearthed. The find suggests early snakes were not creatures of the sea and has ...

Michael Caldwell is affiliated with the University of Alberta, Departments of Biological Sciences and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering ...

The Nile River has captivated the hearts and minds of many different people: geologists, hydrologists, historians, strategists, rulers, travelers - and poets. Most have portrayed Egypt's claims to ...