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

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

video: The braincase and inner ear of Dinilysia patagonica. 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.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Hongyu Yi]

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