Environment
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Modern Snakes Evolved From Tough Survivors of the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
A massive asteroid slammed into Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, obliterating non-avian dinosaurs. A new study has pinpointed what snakes were doing during the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. Only a few of the asteroid-surviving snakes appear to have evolved into today's snake species.
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