Green was this ancient snake’s signature color
![illustration of ancient snake](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/033116_ht_snakefossilillo_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
Researchers suspect that a roughly 10-million-year-old snake once had a pattern of bright green and black pigments on its back, with yellow and pale brown coloration on its sides, fading into a creamy underbelly.
Jim Robbins