Scientists have reported spotting the fossil of a Madtsoiidae snake from the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya for the first time indicating their prevalence in the subcontinent for a much longer time than previously thought.<\/span><\/p>\n Madtsoiidae is an extinct group of medium-sized to gigantic snakes.<\/span><\/p>\n These snakes first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and were mostly distributed in the Gondwanan landmasses, although their Cenozoic record is extremely scarce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From the fossil record, the whole group disappeared in the mid-Paleogene across most Gondwanan continents except for Australia where it survived with its last known taxon Wonambi till the late Pleistocene.<\/span><\/p>\n Scientists have found the fossils of a Madtsoiidae snake from the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n These fossils belong to the late Oligocene (part of the Tertiary Period in the Cenozoic Era that lasted from about 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago).<\/span><\/p>\n Significance<\/b>: This is the first time indicating the prevalence of this snake in the Indian subcontinent for a much longer time than previously thought.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 <\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0<\/span>“Scientists discover almost 35 million years old rare snake fossil from Ladakh Himalaya<\/strong>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span>\u00a0PIB\u00a0<\/b>on<\/span> 13th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Scientists have reported spotting the fossil of a Madtsoiidae snake from the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya for the first time indicating their prevalence in the subcontinent for a much longer time than previously thought. What is Madtsoiidae Snake? Madtsoiidae is an extinct group of medium-sized to gigantic snakes. These snakes… Continue reading Scientists discover almost 35 million years old rare snake fossil from Ladakh Himalaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-184487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Madtsoiidae Snake?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What have the Scientists found about the Madtsoiidae Snake?<\/b><\/h5>\n