Archaeologists find fossil snake with legs in Argentina

[icymist]

BUENOS AIRES, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have found a 90-million-year-old fossil of a two-legged snake in La Buitrera, in the southern Argentine province of Rio Negro, adding evidence to the argument that snakes evolved on land, local media said on Thursday.

The snake's anatomy and the location of the fossil show it lived on land, said the researchers, from the Maimonides University National History Foundation and Buenos Aires Natural Sciences Museum team.

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Fossil find suggests snakes evolved on land

By MALCOLM RITTER

NEW YORK (AP) - A fossil find in Argentina has revealed a two-legged creature that's the most primitive snake known, a discovery that promises to fire up the scientific debate about whether snakes evolved on land or in the sea.

The snake's anatomy and the location of the fossil show it lived on land, researchers said, adding evidence to the argument that snakes evolved on land.

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[derby378]

1. That snake's DARK-SIDED!!

I rebuke it in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Either him or Lustmord. Whichever shows up on my front porch first.

[cssmall]

2. I really thank you for this find, but. . .

please, please, please, please refrain from calling palentologists archeologists, because we are completely different. Now, if I were at a site of cultural importance and working and found something like this, then okay, but palentologists do very similar work, it's just not archeology.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. A snake with legs!!?? Does it look like George Bush??

Sorry, I just could not resist.
:hide:

[depakid]

4. Certain skinks don't look all that much different

than snakes with legs....