Saturday, 20 May 2017

Brand new snake species found in Tennessee sinkhole

An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time in the evolutionary history of snakes.
Among the fossilized creatures found there is a new species of snake that lived 5 million years ago.
Researchers examined hundreds of dark mineral-stained snake fossils found in the Gray Fossil Site near East Tennessee State University and were surprised to discover vertebrae that don’t match any known species of snake, living or extinct.-read more

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