Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India
Prehistoric snake discovered in India was three metres long and preyed on baby sauropodsEven dinosaurs may have been afraid of snakes, a discovery suggests. Scientists have unearthed the almost complete fossil skeleton of a prehistoric snake that preyed on baby dinosaurs. The creature, which was three metres long, was "caught in the act" of pursuing a meal 67m years ago.Its body was found in a dinosaur nest coiled around a hatched and crushed egg, and next to it was a 50cm fossil hatchling titanosaur - a small version of a plant-eating giant that as an adult weighed up to 100 tonnes. The remains of two other snakes were also found paired with eggs at the same site in Gujarat, western India.The snake, named Sanajeh indicus, lacked the wide-open jaws of modern snakes such as pythons and boa constrictors and would not have been able to swallow a whole dinosaur egg. But baby dinosaurs would have been just the right size, according to researchers.Dr Jason Head, from the University of Toronto in Canada, who led a s
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India
The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient ...
Tue 2 Mar 10 from USA today
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India, Tue 2 Mar 10 from USA today
Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India, Tue 2 Mar 10 from AP
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