What's your favourite snake family?

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

Well, fossil records for snakes are limited, but it's believed that snakes evolved from animals rather like monitor lizards and the remnant of a hip found in Boids and pythons (along with some other physical characteristics) is said to be evidence of the link.

Hussam Zaher's work is pretty excellent, I think.

A Fossil Snake with Limbs | Hussam Zaher - Academia.edu

No disrespect, but I find to many "it's believed" and actual provable facts to believe these theories.