Cretaceous Baby Snake in Amber

[Troodon]

The first known fossilized snake embryo/neonate preserved in early Late Cretaceous (Early Cenomanian) amber from Myanmar is published in this paper

Article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/baby-snake-amber-fossil-1.4444666

 

 

Paper

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/7/eaat5042

 

 

 

 

[TyBoy]

Very cool and wow those Vertebrae

[Wolf89]

thats awesome

[Mediospirifer]

Amazing. Snakes are pretty cool critters; neat to know that they've been around for 100 MY!

 

[Bobby Rico]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44872148  

 

Snake 99 million years old