But today there are around 4,000 species of snakes, ranging in size from green anacondas that weigh more than adult gorillas to thread snakes that are lighter than a paperclip.
The paper demonstrates that snakes are an 'evolutionary singularity' that has changed the face of the Earth, says Michael Lee, an evolutionary biologist at Flinders University in Australia.
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