Researchers Identify Fossil of Dinosaur-Eating Snake

Posted by Jimalakirti in Evolution
at 2:51 pm on Saturday, 6 March 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/science/snakes.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

The discovery of a snake near an egg is by no means unusual, but in this case, the snake was 67 million years old — providing scientists with new information about how snakes in the dinosaur era lived, and what they ate.

The fossilized scene is a striking one and the first of its kind: the 11.5-foot-long snake is coiled around a cracked egg and surrounded by several more eggs. Nearby is a dinosaur hatchling, newly emerged from the cracked egg.

(New York Times, March 3. 2010)

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