The colonisation of Madagascar by land‐bound vertebrates

JR Ali, SB Hedges - Biological Reviews, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite discussions extending back almost 160 years, the means by which Madagascar's
iconic land vertebrates arrived on the island remains the focus of active debate. Three …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

AM Durso, RR de Castañeda, C Montalcini… - Toxicon: X, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution,
and the epidemiology of venomous snakebite challenging. One of the most useful, most …

[HTML][HTML] An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column

Z Szyndlar, GL Georgalis - Vertebrate Zoology, 2023‏ - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
We here present a thorough documentation of the vertebral morphology and intracolumnar
variation across non-caenophidian snakes. Our studied sample of multiple individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid increase in snake dietary diversity and complexity following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

MC Grundler, DL Rabosky - PLoS Biology, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
The Cenozoic marked a period of dramatic ecological opportunity in Earth history due to the
extinction of non-avian dinosaurs as well as to long-term physiographic changes that …

[کتاب][B] The rise of reptiles: 320 million years of evolution

HD Sues - 2019‏ - books.google.com
The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Multilocus phylogeny, natural history traits and classification of natricine snakes (Serpentes: Natricinae)

V Deepak, N Cooper, NA Poyarkov… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Natricine snakes are geographically widespread, species rich (with~ 250 extant species)
and both morphologically and ecologically diverse. We present a multilocus DNA sequence …

Snake venom in context: neglected clades and concepts

TNW Jackson, H Jouanne, N Vidal - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Despite the fact that venom is an intrinsically ecological trait, the ecological perspective has
been widely neglected in toxinological research. This neglect has hindered our …

Morphological evolution and niche conservatism across a continental radiation of Australian blindsnakes

S Tiatragul, A Skeels, JS Keogh - Evolution, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Understanding how continental radiations are assembled across space and time is a major
question in macroevolutionary biology. Here, we use a phylogenomic-scale phylogeny, a …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition …

G Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, D Vasilyan… - Palaeontologia …, 2019‏ - iris.unito.it
We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …

[کتاب][B] Snakes of the World: a supplement

J Boundy - 2020‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …