Posted on 09/18/2021 10:49:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The study, led by scientists at the University of Bath and including collaborators from Bristol, Cambridge and Germany, used fossils and analysed genetic differences between modern snakes to reconstruct snake evolution. The analyses helped to pinpoint the time that modern snakes evolved.
Their results show that all living snakes trace back to just a handful of species that survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, the same extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The authors argue that the ability of snakes to shelter underground and go for long periods without food helped them survive the destructive effects of the impact. In the aftermath, the extinction of their competitors – including Cretaceous snakes and the dinosaurs themselves – allowed snakes to move into new niches, new habitats and new continents.
Snakes then began to diversify, producing lineages like vipers, cobras, garter snakes, pythons, and boas, exploiting new habitats, and new prey. Modern snake diversity – including tree snakes, sea snakes, venomous vipers and cobras, and huge constrictors like boas and pythons – emerged only after the dinosaur extinction.
Fossils also show a change in the shape of snake vertebrae in the aftermath, resulting from the extinction of Cretaceous lineages and the appearance of new groups, including giant sea snakes up to 10 metres long...
The study also suggests that snakes began to spread across the globe around this time. Although the ancestor of living snakes probably lived somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, snakes first appear to have spread to Asia after the extinction.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
When evolutionists can’t answer a question on evolution they just say it’s evolution; or aliens.
Are you Kidding me?
Of all the unscientific things to say.
Total Buffoonery!
Yep, consensus science in all its glory. "We think we know what's going on. Trust us. What could possibly go wrong?"
The scientists probably found that answer just by looking up Joe Biden on Ancestry.com.
When did they evolve into Democrats?
And now those snakes have evolved and live and work in Washington.
We need another asteroid.
No, what they're doing is working from evidence. Since you don't like science, the only reason you're here is to troll.
Their results show that all living snakes trace back to just a handful of species that survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, the same extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Patently false - the many species of dinosaurs lived for millions of years after the strike (which may have been one of three) and died out from other causes.
When did they evolve into Democrats?
Chapter 3 of Genesis, when the serpent deceived Eve, and registered as a democrat. Which is why democrats can never re-enter the garden.
DISCLAIMER: not to be taken as sound doctrine (just a hunch ;>)
[[The authors argue.. Our research suggests.. This seems to be.. The patterns seen in snakes hint at..]]
Sounds like the ‘settled science’ on climate change too-
Lol. Asteroid impact pseudoscience continues.
[[died out from other causes.]]
they died from smoking- According to far side-
Please don’t insult snakes. They serve a beneficial purpose, unlike RATs.
“Our research suggests.. This seems to be.. The patterns seen in snakes hint at..”
You’re not used to or don’t believe in science. That’s the correct way scientists talk. There is no such thing as settled science or proof in science.
[[There is no such thing as settled science or proof in science.]]
Tell that to the left- they make the claim all the time-
what i am used to is them and their ilk claiming the discussions are closed because the science is settled-
my comment was a slam on the left- not science-
Lol, you trolling and not knowing what you’re talking about continues.
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