According to the U.S. "Connection" network March 2, U.S. paleontologists discovered the snake eating dinosaur fossil which is 6,700 years of history, fossil displays a snake coiled in the dinosaur eggs and hatching a dinosaur cubs  around. This is the first evidence of dinosaurs found in the snake to eat.

University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno said: "This is a stunning masterpiece found that almost broke the record of fossils were found, which is carnivorous predators prey animals and a rare scene together."

"Snakes and dinosaur egg" fossil

26 years ago, a geologist at the Geological Survey of India in India's northeast Dhanajay Mohabey a village called Dholi Dungri of an exposed hard limestone body of the first to discover the fossil. He did not believe that all excavated dinosaur fossils are cubs. However, in 2001, the University of Michigan paleontologist Jeff Wilson re-examined the fossil. The team then admitted that they found the fossil snake is actually a disk around a broken shell of dinosaur eggs and a dinosaur pups, in the vicinity there are two eggs. The discovery of the study published in the March 1 issue of "bio-Public Library of Science" magazine.

This snake belongs to the newly discovered snake species has been named Sanajeh indicus, body length of 3.5 meters. Had just hatched out of a small dinosaur that titanosaurs (Long Kesuo Dragon) is one of, after measuring about 0.45 meters long. Titan dragon is the largest ever land animals, adult dragon can be up to 30 meters.

Different from the modern snakes, Sanajeh indicus did not make a very big mouth open and jaw joints, so it can only rely on its huge body to hunt dinosaurs defenseless pups. Wilson said: "Fortunately, pups dinosaur skeleton was also soft, and even collapsible, so easy to eat a snake. Was probably a storm strikes, floods, water level continued to rise, resulting in an adult dragon to flee and abandon their own home. So the snake took the opportunity to climb into the dinosaur cave. some of the dinosaur eggs begin to hatch, they stretched out the limbs. has happened since the snake will be attracted in the past. snake's body with their own eggs enclosed on the waiting cub hatched dinosaurs. Unfortunately, is that the moment has been long term resident, a landslide buried them. "It is said that the group Dholi Dungri also found another three to four fossils of dinosaur eggs in the vicinity of the snake.

The results caused people to the origin of snakes has a new understanding. The fossil record shows that reptiles first appeared about 9800 years ago. But this snake preserved fossils are extremely rare, well-preserved specimens of this period found only six. Wilson said, "Many of their early origins are unclear. More fossils of early snake evolution will help show a complete picture of the snake."

The fossil was found that some modern animal behavior has very ancient roots. Habits of snakes eating eggs that have been a million years of biological history. Birds are now often eaten by a snake, the original of their ancestors - the dinosaurs are also a victim of a snake.

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