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Lizard fossil provides missing link to show body shapes of snakes and limbless lizards evolved independently

The recent discovery of a tiny, 47 million-year-old fossil of a lizard called Cryptolacerta hassiaca provides the first anatomical evidence that the body shapes of snakes and limbless lizards evolved independently.

Read full article here... (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110518131416.htm)

That is a very cool finding.

Dan

Interesting indeed.

Man and to think most of us growing up thought snakes were lizards without legs...
Awesome info thanks big time...