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Snakes up to 4 meters long lived in Europe 66 to 24 million years ago, including the Helvetic constrictor.
A UZH study now revises its taxonomy, describes new remains from France, Germany and England and names a new genus: https://t.co/YjWKDwHLxc
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@RenTradewind What an incredible list of people! Thanks for this Ren!
I'm a biology/entomologist & science communicator! I'm working on quantifying a model organism for ecotoxicological research as my PhD, but I also work with museums in taxonomy, & lecture on biochemistry & agricultural tech
With logical taxonomy, these guys should be together under the same clade, such as "Ophidiocephalia" or something.
Instead of split them apart to "elder dragons", or lumping them with far more stem-mammal like fanged wyverns, just because they are quadrupeds and have no wings.