The changing climate is quickly pushing cold-blooded animals up against their limits. And a well-preserved fossil from the Jurassic period might help fill in some of the gaps surrounding the evolution of squamates.
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Sources:
Climate: https://press.springernature.com/extreme-escalation-of-heat-failure-rates-in-ectotherms-with-glob/23622858
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05334-4
Fossil squamate:
https://press.springernature.com/synchrotron-tomography-of-a-stem-lizard-elucidates-early-squamat/23604042
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05332-6
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warming-world-too-hot-for/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3009776/
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