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I'd like some professional opinions about this. In my comparative anatomy class, my instructor told us that a possible ancestor (or close cousin? she wasn't too clear on this) for the snake was the mosasaur. This would explain many of the traits and behaviors that snakes have today (leglessness, loss of eyelids, other features). Can the professionals clarify this a bit? Just looking for a second opinion.... :) What this newsletter's all about! Cheers, Andrea On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mike Everhart wrote: > All, > BioOne, an electronic publishing company which provides digital copies of > papers to libraries and other subscribers, periodically puts representative > papers on-line (open access) from the various journals they serve. For > January, they chose a recent paper of mine from the Transactions of the Kansas > Academy of Science, and made it available to the public as a .pdf file and > from their server, including figures. There are also a number of other open > access papers also available from various disciplines outside paleontology. > > Since the specimen is the only known remains of a mosasaur from the Fort Hays > Limestone, I thought some of you you might be interested: > > http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=index-html > > The public access copy is only available through January. > > Regards, > > Mike Everhart > Adjunct Curator of Paleontology > Sternberg Museum of Natural History > Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS > www.oceansofkansas.com > > > > > -- In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
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