CNN: New Limbed Cretaceous Snake

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/19/fossil.snake.ap/index.html

Not a half bad article, really.  Cool stuff for sure.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
To: Danvarner@aol.com
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:46:24 -0400
Subject: Re: New Limbed Cretaceous Snake

Quoting Danvarner@aol.com:Â
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> > From this week's Nature:Â
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7087/abs/nature04413.htmlÂ;
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The name of the new snake is _Najash rionegrina_, "najash" being 
derived "[f]rom Hebrew *Najash*, the legged biblical snake".Â
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In case there are any Hebrew scholars out there, I'm curious: What does 
the <j> in "najash" correspond to in Hebrew? Yod?Â
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-- Nick PharrisÂ
Department of LinguisticsÂ
University of MichiganÂ
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