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Researchers have gotten their first look at a very rare fossil that's spent months in storage at the P.E.I. National Park in Greenwich. The fossil will next be travelling to Ottawa where a vertebrate paleontologist will try to find out more about it.

Judging by snakes, the evolutionary solution of limblessness is a hit. Now a fossil found in Illinois delivers the earliest-­­­known reptile without legs, and hints that it might be an ancestral condition