The article explores the evolutionary history of snakes, highlighting ten extinct species that showcase their dramatic adaptations. From Eophis, the oldest known snake, to Titanoboa, a bus-sized ...

Other notable primitive snake fossils include Najash rionegrina from Argentina (approximately 90 million years old), which possessed small but developed hind limbs, and Pachyrhachis problematicus from ...

Other notable primitive snake fossils include Najash rionegrina from Argentina (approximately 90 million years old), which possessed small but developed hind limbs, and Pachyrhachis problematicus from ...

Thelypteridaceae is one of the fern families that has a subcosmopolitan distribution and great species richness, with approximately 1000 species, of which most occur in tropical and subtropical ...

Fossil evidence supports this hypothesis, with early snake fossils exhibiting remnants of hind limbs. The discovery of fossil snakes like Pachyrhachis problematicus, Haasiophis terrasanctus, and ...

This theory gets even more interesting if we consider other fossils from around the same time. For example, Pachyrhachis problematicus, a 98-million-year-old snake that mainly lived in water, had tiny ...

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Ferns and lycophytes are an important component of the vascular flora in tropical forests, representing 10% to 14% of the diversity in these environments, often being the dominant groups in the ...

The squamates (lizards, snakes, and relatives) today comprise more than 10,000 species, and yet their sister group, the Rhynchocephalia, is represented by a single species today, the tuatara. The ...

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; ...

And for decades, researchers looked for an evolutionary link between snakes and mosasaurs in one of the most-studied snakes of the Cretaceous - - a two-legged snake known as Pachyrhachis ...

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