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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- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2009
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/27779
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07671
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27779
- Palabra clave:
- Animals
Atmosphere / chemistry
Biological evolution
Body Size
Body temperature regulation
Boidae and anatomy & histology
Boidae metabolism
Carbon Dioxide / analysis
Colombia
Energy metabolism
Fossils
History
ancient
Temperature
Tropical climate
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