This Species of Ancient Scottish Reptile Is Part Snake and Part Lizard

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A paleontological discovery on the Scottish island of Skye reveals the fossilized remains of an amazingly physical Jurassic reptile, mixing lizard and snake characteristics....

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Classifying the living often amounts to laying boundaries where evolution has not been traced. Between reptiles with scratched limbs and legless snakes, the lines seem clear, but they can be blurred as soon as one searches through the layers of the past. This is precisely what Breugnathair reveals, a Jurassic fossil whose anatomy intrigues as much as it questions the history of squamates. A rare fossil that reveals the beginnings of squamates In…