Oldest Fossil Evidence Of Modern African Venomous Snakes Found In Tanzania

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Oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous

snakes found in Tanzania, Science Daily, March 20, 2014

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140320101515.htm

McCartney, J. A., N. J. Stevens, P. M. O’Connor,

2014, The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake

Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late

Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern

Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 9(3):e90415

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090415

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0090415

Yours,

Paul H.