Eighty million years ago, a snake died in sediment that would hold its shape across geological time — and in doing so, preserved a question humanity is only now learning to ask: not how snakes became what they are, but how many things they were before they chose. A remarkably intact three-dimensional fossil, studied by paleontologists today, suggests that the earliest snakes were not specialists driven by a single evolutionary pressure, but generalists capable of burrowing, swimming, and crawling through the Cretaceous world. The loss of limbs, long assumed to be an adaptation to one narrow ni
80-Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Reveals Diverse Early Lifestyles
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