Uropeltis maculata

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Are burrowing snakes digging their own evolutionary grave?

Why is there variation in the number of species between different groups of animals and plants? Why do some groups seem to be more "evolutionarily successful" with a higher number of species than other? For instance, there are over 10,000 species of birds but just... click to read more

Vivek Philip Cyriac | PhD student at IISER-TVM Centre for Research and Education in Ecology and Evolution (ICREEE) and School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, India

snake

Uropeltis maculata

extinction

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 26, 2018

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