This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake
origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology …

The first clear fossil indications of modern clades of snakes are in the Palaeogene. Many
major groups, including 'scolecophidians'(blindsnakes), probably originated earlier, and …

Relationships between the major lineages of snakes are assessed based on a phylogenetic
analysis of the most extensive phenotypic data set to date (212 osteological, 48 soft …

Snakes are one of the most extraordinary groups of terrestrial vertebrates, with numerous
specializations distinguishing them from other squamates (lizards and their allies). Their …

Snakes are among the most charismatic and highly-studied organisms (Greene 1997), yet
our understanding of their early evolution and phylogeny remains in a state of flux. Extensive …

Background The highly derived morphology and astounding diversity of snakes has long
inspired debate regarding the ecological and evolutionary origin of both the snake total …

" This volume includes detailed accounts of the morphology and distribution of the fossil
snakes of North America and also remarks on their evolutionary, zoogeographic, and …

This chapter arrives at an interesting and exciting time in the study of snake systematics. The
last part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century might ultimately be …

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 …

Squamata, the group that encompasses snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians, is the largest
(> 10,500 sp.) and most disparate group of modern reptiles. Extant squamates are …