Re: New Limbed Cretaceous Snake

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Danvarner@aol.com:

> Large images:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9020-oldest-snake-fossil-shows-a-bit-of-
> leg.html

<<Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State 
University, US, says: "In one fell swoop, this new fossil kind of casts 
doubt on the aquatic hypothesis."

His DNA sequencing studies suggest a terrestrial origin for snakes. And 
he says that, looking at evolutionary history, it is difficult to find 
examples of limb loss in an aquatic environment.>>

Uhhh...What about cetaceans?

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Nick Pharris
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University of Michigan

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