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.

Fernando Garberoglio found the ancient snake's skull in 2013. Back then, Garberoglio was an undergraduate paleontology student studying at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Scientists have known about the ancient snake group Najash for years, but were not able to gain a thorough understanding of its skull until now Brigit Katz - Correspondent November 21, 2019 ...

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 group that includes burrowing snakes, gliding lizards and ...

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 ...

The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution. Nature Communications, 2015; 6: 5996 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6996 ...