Why did snakes lose their legs? An 80-million-year-old fossil offers clues

A pristine 80-million-year-old snake fossil from Brazil reveals the earliest snakes were underground burrowers, in a study published in Nature.

Why it mattersThe finding rewrites a century-old debate about snake origins and shows evolution can take multiple paths to the same body plan.

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