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Nov 2026 edition
Science Sensei
Field notes from the frontier
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Animals

Strange behaviour across the animal kingdom

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167-Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Rewrites When Legs Were Lost

The discovery of Breugnathair elgolensis, dated to roughly 167 million years ago, is forcing paleontologists to push back the origin of the snake body plan into the Jurassic Period —…

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