34-Million-Year-Old Snake Found in Wyoming Rewrites Our Understanding of Evolution

34-Million-Year-Old Snake Found in Wyoming Rewrites Our Understanding of Evolution

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34-Million-Year-Old Snake Found in Wyoming Rewrites Our Understanding of EvolutionA small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing like today’s. A newly identified fossil snake from Wyoming is rewriting scientists’ understanding of snake evolution. The species, named Hibernophis breithaupti, lived about 34 million years ago and may represent an early branch of Booidea, the […]

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