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Oldest Baby Snake Fossil Found Preserved in Myanmar Amber (7 of 12)

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Oldest Baby Snake Fossil Found Preserved in Myanmar Amber (7 of 12)

image: Detailed view of scales with higher pigment intensity in snake skin fragment, DIP-V-15104. 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." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Ryan MCKELLAR, Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM)]


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