Thursday, November 14, 2013

[News & Analysis] Paleontology: The Ears Have It: First Snakes Were Burrowers, Not Swimmers

Science 8 November 2013:
Vol. 342 no. 6159 p. 683
DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6159.683-a Paleontology One of paleontology's sharpest debates concerns whether the first snakes crawled on land or swam in the water. Data on the inner ear anatomy of living and fossil snakes, presented at a recent meeting, suggest that snakes evolved from terrestrial, burrowing ancestors.


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