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The four-legged hugging snake

How did snakes evolve? Did they come from marine lizards or terrestrial burrowing lizards? A newly discovered four-legged fossil snake nicknamed the ‘Huggy Snake’ may have provided Nick Longrich at the University of Bath with the answer.

(Image caption: Close up of Tetrapodophis amplectus feet © Dave Martill, University of Portsmouth)

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