Study: Snake ancestors had hind legs

A new fossil hints at possible snake ancestors that h hind legs and cheekbones. An emerging ory suggests that this snake fossil may have been a form of transient st and that hind legs may have merely been appends.

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Useful hind legs for snakes

According to this ory, hind legs which were supposedly simply appends were quickly apted out leaving ir current limbless form. study is based on well-preserved fossils of snakes and snake skulls and is suggestive of fact that snake ancestors may have h hind legs at some point. specific specimen that study is based on is called Najash rionegrina, which is thought to be a of early snake that h hind limbs.

Eighty skulls of this prehistoric snake were found in La Buitrera Palaeontological Area of rrn Patagonia in Argentina. Studies conducted on Najash show that y h features more akin to lizards.

Najash also possessed a jaw point. le authors of study, Fernando Garberoglio released a statement which said that y believed that ancestors of modern snake were big-bodied and big-moud animals. He furr ded that study shows that early snakes, in reality, h retained ir hind limbs for a long period of time.

study reveals that Najash lived with hind legs for 70 million years and that y were actually useful and t useless appends. Michael Caldwell who co-authored study stated that research he and his team did revolutionizes understanding of jugal bone in a snake.

Modern snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of  suborder Serpentes. Snakes are found on every continent in world except Antarctica and some isolated island nations like  Ireland, Iceland, Greenland,  Hawaiian archipelago, and islands of New Zealand, and many small islands of Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.

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