Giant boin snake from a Paleocene Neotropical reveal hotter past equatorial temperatures
The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeast Asia1,2,3 where high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals whose body temperatures are dependant on ambient environmental temperatures (poikilothermy)4,5. Very little is known...
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Nature Publishing Group
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27779 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07671 |