That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake species with hind legs following earlier evidence of ...

Significant insights into snake evolution have come to light with an intriguing discovery of an ancient snake fossil found in ...

Unfortunately, that first description of Najash relied on a very fragmentary skull. Scholars of snake evolution were left to guess at what the head of these ancient animals might have looked like.

Researchers have reconstructed the ancestral snake head. It is part of a larger project to create 3D reconstructions of how the skull evolved. Snakes and lizards (squamates) are part of a diverse ...

Scholars of snake evolution were left to guess at what the head of these ancient animals might ... an almost complete, 95-million-year-old, 3D preserved snake skull. It has been 13 years since ...

Scholars of snake evolution were left to guess at what the head of ... to his surprise, Garberoglio was right — there it was, an almost complete, 95 million year old, 3D preserved snake skull.

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 recent common ancestor of ...