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"It's the super-glue of the fossil record," said Prof Caldwell. "Amber is totally unique - whatever it touches is frozen in time inside of the plastic-like resin." Snakes: The oldest known snake ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal ...

It is also the oldest monstersauria found so far. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, said on Nov. 25 that the jawbone fossil is the first from ...

“My intuition says that the oldest is a terrestrial species, those that we call fossorial snakes ... “To this extent, it bears resemblance to the Aniloideas and the snake fossil Dinilysia, two groups ...