This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ancient snake with rear limbs, Najash rionegrina. Our study of this fossil has been published in the journal Science Advances. This and other ...

Digital snake skulls. The results of the new snake skull study adds to that theory: Skull structure, the researchers argue, predicts habitat, and their fossil samples demonstrate that the most ...

In the wake of this discovery, researchers uncovered multiple other snake fossils, including a total of eight skulls, reports CNN’s Ashley Strickland. The remains are around 95 million years old ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

“These things had specialized features of snake skulls 167 million years ago. That probably indicates that … the snake innovation was about the skull and feeding ecology, not becoming long and ...

The intricate fossils, mostly skulls, are nearly 100 million years old and belong to the extinct snake group Najash, which still retained hind legs. The fossils suggest that snakes lost their ...