Fossilized Inner Ear Hints that Modern Snakes Had Burrowing Ancestors (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

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The Inner ear of Ptyas mucosa, the oriental rat snake. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 27, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Yi at University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'The burrowing origin of modern snakes.'

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[Credit: Hongyu Yi]

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