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Snakes once had legs: Here's how they lost them 100 million years ago

How snakes lost their legs: A buried skull in Patagonia, a broken genetic switch, and the ghost legs still hiding inside pythons, scientists are finally closing in on one of evolution's strangest disappearing acts.

30 Jul 2026 4:59 pm