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New skulls and skeletons of the Cretaceous legged snake Najash, and the evolution of the modern snake body plan

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 fo...

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Autores principales: Garberoglio, Fernando F., Apesteguía, Sebastián, Simões, Tiago R., Palci, Alessandro, Gómez, Raúl O., Nydam, Randall L., Larsson, Hans C. E., Lee, Michael S. Y., Caldwell, Michael W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6867888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31799393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax5833