Messelopython freyi, oldest python discovered yet?

[Faelrin]

Here's an article that popped on my phone's feed:


https://www.livescience.com/oldest-python-snakes-on-record.html


Absolute beautiful preservation. Found in the famous Messel Fossil Pit in Germany, during the Eocene (which is part of the Paleogene).


Here's another article on it:


https://phys.org/news/2020-12-world-earliest-python-million-year-old-fossil.html


I guess the paper on this was published here (seems paywalled to me):


https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0735

[Halichoeres]

Cool find. The Messel pits consistently deliver excellent fossils.

I guess the paper on this was published here (seems paywalled to me):

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0735

As always, happy to supply pdfs for the curious.