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A mysterious fossil points to the origins of lizards and snakes
By The New York Times | The New York Times
UPDATED ON OCT 09, 2018 07:36 PM IST
In the journal Nature, an international team of scientists identified an animal, called Megachirella, as the earliest known ancestor of the squamates, the family containing lizards, snakes and wormlike amphisbaenians.