New Study Reveals Evolution of Lizards and Snakes

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

A new study, published online in Biology Letters on September 19, has utilized a massive molecular dataset to reconstruct the evolutionary history of lizards and snakes. The results reveal a surprising finding about the evolution of snakes: that most snakes we see living on the surface today arose from ancestors that lived underground.

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