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These snails give live birth, and it’s the babies that may do the labor

Protecting eggs in mom’s body may have given rough periwinkle snails an advantage over egg-laying cousins, letting them spread to far more coastline.

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The Powerhouse Giant: Incredible Bacteria So Big, You Can See It Without a Microscope

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Mother Charged With Murder After Home Birth in California Is 'Harbinger' of Post-Roe Reality

Kelsey Carpenter lost her newborn after going into early labor in what a medical examiner characterized as a terrible accident. She faces 20 years in prison.

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Phys.orgNov 15, 2022

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-messel-boa-birth-million-year-old-snake.html
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Messel boa: #Livebirth in a 47-million-year-old snake @Senckenberg https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-022-01828-3 https://phys.org/news/2022-11-messel-boa-birth-million-year-old-snake.html

Messel boa: Live birth in a 47-million-year-old snake

An Argentine-German team of scientists, including Senckenberg's Krister Smith, has discovered the world's first fossil evidence of live birth in snakes. The fossil they examined came from the Hessian UNESCO World Heritage Site Messel Pit.

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