Snakes alive! Preserved in a piece of amber about the size of a small potato, a tiny snake hatchling — less than two inches long — is unprecedented in the fossil record. At nearly 100 million years old, the baby snake’s remains provide researchers with significant new information about the animals’ development and global distribution. But wait, there’s more…

The early Late Cretaceous hatchling, from Myanmar’s northern Kachin province, was donated to researchers along with a second pie