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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — The strange-looking fossil was hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime find: a rare snapshot of the way snakes evolved from four-legged lizards. But barely more than a year after ...

An "absolutely exquisite" fossil of a snake that had four legs has been discovered by a team of scientists and may help show how snakes made the transition from lizards to serpents. An "absolutely ...

The worldwide hunt for a fossil link between snakes and lizards has succeeded — in a museum. The fossil, of a four-legged snake, hints that the ancestors of modern-day snakes may have evolved on ...

The finding means the fossil from the so-called "snake with four legs" is actually the bones of a long-bodied marine lizard, the researchers said. "It has long been understood that snakes are ...

The first known fossil of a four-legged snake has been discovered ... a collection in a German museum, showed that snakes evolved from burrowing lizards and not from marine lizards.

Imagine a world millions of years ago, teeming with creatures unlike anything we see today. Among them slithered animals that would one day become the mysterious, legless wonders we now call snakes.

an in-depth look has instead found it to be an Early Cretaceous dolichosaurid lizard. The two parts of the Tetrapodophis amplectus fossil believed to be a four-legged snake. Image source ...

Snakes are believed to have originated from lizard-like ancestors that had four fully functional legs. The initial stages of ...

The oldest snake fossil on record looks almost like a modern snake, except for one glaring difference: It has four feet, each with five digits, a new study finds. Previous research has detailed ...

Pan took inspiration from the western three-toed skink (Chalcides striatus), a species of lizard with four tiny legs. The species looks remarkably similar to a snake, apart from the four small ...

How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats ...