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

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

video: Rendering of skeleton and soft tissues in Xiaophis myanmarensis hatchling snake skeleton, using X-ray micro-CT. 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: Alessandro PALCI, South Australian Museum (SAM)]


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