Snakes @lemmy.world aldalire @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5mo ago

New rabbit hole: snek evolutionary biology

www.scientificamerican.com An Evolutionary 'Big Bang' Explains Why Snakes Come in So Many Strange Varieties

Snakes saw a burst of adaptation about 128 million years ago that led to them exploding in diversity and evolving up to three times faster than lizards

Any reading recommendations to plunge further into this new rabbit hole? 🤔

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Uhh maybe these? Felt bad this went unanswered so I did a quick search.

The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

The ecological origins of snakes as revealed by skull evolution

Evolutionary trajectories of snake genes and genomes revealed by comparative analyses of five-pacer viper

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

The Origin and Early Evolutionary of Snakes