Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle

[Hermes14]

Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil
The 90-million-year old skull of a Dinilysia Patagonica is giving scientist vital clues of how the snake evolved.
Comparisons between CT scans of the fossil and modern reptiles indicate that snakes lost their legs when their ancestors evolved to live and hunt in burrows, which many snakes still do today
(Eve had nothing to do with it).

According to Dr Hongyu Yi, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences.
It seems that snakes ancestors lost their legs when they became adept to burrowing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151127195113.htm

The study, published in Science Advances, was supported by the Royal Society
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1500743

https://royalsociety.org/

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

But...6 000 years ago...................

 

[Hermes14]

But...6 000 years ago...................

I am assuming you are talking about the age of the earth.
Scientists use a method call carbon dating to roughly determine the of a fossil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
Scientists have dated the Dinilysia Patagonica fossil to approximately 9 000 000 years old.
If you tell me that they are a few hundred years out, I am not going to argue with you.
If someone wanted to argue that it cannot be older than 6 000 years old, that would mean that they do not accept carbon dating as a method of dating something.