Snakes crawled among Jurassic dinosaurs, new timeline says
Fossils indicate flexible skulls, not legless bodies, make snakes snakes

ANCIENT SNAKE The earliest known snakes, like this one swimming in a lake in this illustration, lived during the Jurassic Period, a new study suggests.
Julius Csotonyi
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