In 2022, University of Bristol scientists finally studied the skeleton and placed it within Squamata, the reptile order that ...

revealing the first flying reptiles evolved from small ground-dwelling ancestors that probably ran around on two legs. "It was great to be the first person to look at these details," Dr Foffa said.

However, few people realise that the ancestors of these legless reptiles once had limbs. Over millions of years, snakes evolved from legged lizard-like creatures into the slithering serpents we ...