This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil
The delicate skeleton dates to about 99 million years ago
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SNAKE SURPRISE A walnut-sized nugget of amber contains the first known example of a fossilized baby snake.
Ming Bai/Chinese Academy of Sciences