Reconstructed skulls from an extinct group of Australian snakes may provide the much-needed missing link in the slippery story of snake evolution, Eleanor Lawrence explains.
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Scanlon,J. D. & Lee, M. S. Y. The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes. Nature 403,416 2000.
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Lawrence, E. A twist in the tail of snake evolution. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000127-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000127-8