{"id":56,"date":"2026-04-24T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/260424024002-htm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:36:51","slug":"260424024002-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/260424024002-htm\/","title":{"rendered":"This 100 million-year-old snake had hind legs and a lost bone that changes evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren\u2019t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today\u2014they still had hind legs and even a cheekbone that has almost vanished in modern species. A remarkably preserved fossil of Najash rionegrina from Argentina has reshaped how scientists think about snake origins, suggesting early snakes were large, wide-mouthed predators rather than tiny burrowers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren\u2019t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today\u2014they still had hind legs and even a cheekbone that has almost vanished in modern species. A remarkably preserved fossil of Najash rionegrina from Argentina has reshaped how scientists think about snake origins, suggesting early snakes were large, wide-mouthed predators rather than tiny burrowers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[34,32,33,35],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}