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This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil

The delicate skeleton dates to about 99 million years ago

baby snake preserved in amber

SNAKE SURPRISE  A walnut-sized nugget of amber contains the first known example of a fossilized baby snake.

Ming Bai/Chinese Academy of Sciences

By Laurel Hamers

- More than 2 years ago

The first known fossil remains of a baby snake have turned up in a hunk of amber found in Myanmar.