A team of researchers affiliated with Clark University, the Museum of Natural History, Yale University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has developed a theory to explain why skinks living in the Philippines lost their legs over many years of evolution, and then regained them many years later. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study of the tiny lizard and what they learned about it.
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