This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ancient snake with rear ... This demonstrates that the lower bar of the jugal was lost through snake evolution, leaving behind a rod-like ...

Dr Alessandro Palci, Flinders University These images revealed that this snake does not have a pineal eye. What actually goes through the mysterious hole in its skull is a large blood vessel ...

These images revealed that this snake does not have a pineal eye. What actually goes through the mysterious hole in its skull is a large blood vessel (sometimes paired). This blood vessel then ...

Dinilysia patagonica was 6.5 feet-long (two metres) and is thought to have been the largest burrowing snake the world ... more than 2,000 slices through the skull, each just 26 micrometres ...

The shovel-nose snake begins by thrusting its head forward. Then it propagates a wave along its body from the head down to the tail. This allows it to move through a kind of “tube” in the sand ...