Snakes have been around for nearly 100 million years and
scientists have found many fossils of extinct species. But this
astonishing specimen is different. This serpent is Sanajeh
indicus. It is sitting in a dinosaur nest and its coils surround
three eggs and the body of a hatchling. There are many reasons
to think that this prehistoric tableau represented a predator
caught in the act of hunting, rather than a mash-up of
unconnected players thrown together by chance. The snake is
perfectly posed, with its head resting atop a coil and its body
encircling a crushed egg. All the pieces are very well preserved
and very little of the snake, the dinosaur or the crushed egg
have been deformed. All of this suggests that the animals were
caught unawares and quickly buried in sediment. The hatchling in
question is a baby sauropod part of the dinosaur lineage that
included the largest land animals of all time. It was probably a
titanosaur, and being in India, that narrows things down to two
known species – Isisaurus and