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New skulls and skeletons of the Cretaceous legged snake
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Abstract
Snakes represent one of the most dramatic examples of the evolutionary versatility of the vertebrate body plan, including body elongation, limb loss, and skull kinesis. However, understanding the earliest steps toward the acquisition of these remarkable adaptations is hampered by the very limited fossil record of early snakes. Here, we shed light on the acquisition of the snake body plan using micro-computed tomography scans of the first three-dimensionally preserved skulls of the legged snake
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