Tetrapodophis amplectus appears to be a four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. Dr. Dave Martill, from the University of Portsmouth, says that this discovery could help scientists to understand how snakes lost their legs.
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Julius T. Csotonyi
Dave Martill/University of Portsmouth
James Brown/University of Portsmouth
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University of Portsmouth
Original research:
A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana
David M. Martill, Helmut Tischlinger, Nicholas R. Longrich
Science, July 2015 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5672