Saturday, August 16, 2008

An Ancient Serpent with Two Legs

I reported on a 90-million-year-old fossil snake with hind legs a year or so ago on the No Bull Website, a little more than half-way down the page.

Here is a different species about two million years older, and with legs we can see much better. The researcher points out one leg (in the video) and tells how she used x-rays to find the other without damaging the fossil.

X-rays are shown of both legs, one straight and one bent. Even an amateur like me can see from them that these legs have the same basic bone structure as the major bones in our legs. That is, it has the tibia, fibula, and femur that we inherited from our reptile ancestors.

This is just one more nail in the coffin of creationism. It's one of the many "missing links" that creationists keep claiming we don't have. There are plenty of others, too.

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