Oldest Baby Snake Fossil Found Preserved in Myanmar Amber (5 of 12) (IMAGE)
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Detailed view of X-ray micro-CT rendering of skeletal material and soft tissues in type specimen of Xiaophis myanmarensis (predominantly dorsal or 'back' view). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 18, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Xing at China University of Geosciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar."
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[Credit: Ming BAI, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)]
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