Fossils of an extinct snake group with hind legs called “Najash” were recently found in Patagonia, Argentina, according to a recent study in “Science Advances,” a New York Times report said.

Although scientists haven’t found fossils of snakes with four legs, they are sure they exist. Among scientists, the fact that snakes originally had four legs has been accepted for several years.

“‘Snakeness’ is really old, and that’s probably why we don’t have any living representatives of four-legged snakes like we do all of the other lizards,” said Michael Caldwell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Alberta and a co-author of the study told the New York Times.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)