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carved in stone

Posted on 13/04/2012 by

A game board of carved stone in the shape of a coiled rattlesnake, circa 3100-2649 B.C. (above) Bird Woman, circa 3650 B.C. (left) Source: NYT :: ‘The Dawn of Egyptian Art’ Worth reading: NYT Art Review :: Such Magnificent Beasts … Continue reading →

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legless

Posted on 08/02/2011 by

A 95-million-year-old fossil is helping scientists understand how snakes lost their legs through evolutionary time. Read story by BBC News Science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

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