Palaeontologist Dr John Scanlon describes the well-preserved 25 to 20 million-year old snake skulls from the Riversleigh World Heritage site, in today's issue of the journal Nature.

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 ...

Scientists have unearthed an amazingly preserved skull of an ancient snake with hind limbs, revealing more about the origin of snakes and how they lost their legs. Skip to main content.

Rougier asked to inspect the fossil himself and found that, to his surprise, Garberoglio was right — there it was, an almost complete, 95 million year old, 3D preserved snake skull.

The snake, skull and hour glass have been painstakingly carved out of gold, ... It is somewhat amusing Louis Vuitton claims to have been inspired by the vanitas art genre for this timepiece, ...

Until now, the oldest snake fossil dated from about 102 million years ago, said University of Alberta paleontologist Michael Caldwell, who led the study published in the journal Nature Communications.

How the snake lost its legs: Scans of 90 million-year-old skull reveal serpent evolved to live and hunt in burrows NOT the sea. 3D images of Dinilysia patagonica show underground hunting adaptation ...

New Najash fossil skulls would be highly informative on the pattern of snake skull evolution. THE NEW DISCOVERY. It was a hot day in February of 2013 when Fernando Garberoglio, ...

An international team led by Michael Caldwell from the University of Alberta reexamined fossilized skull and jaw bones belonging to 13 snake groups stored in museum collections. They identified ...

Palaeontologist Dr John Scanlon describes the well-preserved 25 to 20 million-year old snake skulls from the Riversleigh World Heritage site, in today's issue of the journal Nature.