How Snakes Lost their Limbs

By tmaier
October 21, 2016 in Fossil News

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"Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A Cell paper publishing October 20 sheds some light on the process, describing a stretch of DNA involved in limb formation that is mutated in snakes. "

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-snakes-lost-blueprint-limbs.html

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