Snakes have an evolutionary leg up, researchers say wshu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wshu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The speed at which serpents evolve and adapt to the environment is fascinating, but evolutionary scientists cannot figure out why this happens so rapidly.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops. New research details how these li.
Snakes do it faster, better: How a group of scaly, legless lizards hit the evolutionary jackpot sciencedaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencedaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs.</p>
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