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Pythons Slithered Through Europe Before Coiling Around the World
The oldest known fossils of the predatory snakes were found at a German site, changing the snake family tree.
A fossil of a python found in Germany, coated in ammonium chloride to enhance visibility of structures.Credit.Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
By Katherine Kornei
Dec. 20, 2020
From 20-foot anacondas to species that can comfortably fit on a quarter, snakes slither across much of the world today. That’s in part because they’re remarkably good at adapting to new environments for instance, the Burmese python, native to Southeast Asia, is thriving in Florida’s Everglades National Park. Now, researchers have analyzed four fossilized python skeletons unearthed in Germany part of a region that’s currently free of the scaly creatures and rewritten the snake family trees.