Data from: Digging their own macroevolutionary grave: Fossoriality as an evolutionary dead-end in snakes

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Fossoriality;Macroevolution;Evolutionary dead-end;Snakes

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doi:10.5061/dryad.rp2js

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if fossoriality, a trait that forces specialization at multiple axes, acts as an evolutionary dead-end in squamates (lizards and snakes) using recently developed

Data from: Virtual endocasts of fossil Sciuroidea: brain size reduction in the evolution of fossoriality

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Fossoriality;Oligocene;Arboreality;Paraflocculi;Miocene;Neocortex

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doi:10.5061/dryad.5vb840f

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to become more arboreal, with relatively larger brains showing traits for improved vision. Recent Aplodontidae with fossorial adaptations returned to a mor

Data from: Molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Scolecophidia and its evolutionary implications

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scolecoidy;ancestral morphotype;Alethinophidia;typhlopoidea;fossoriality.;Leptotyphlopidae;phylogenetics;Scolecophidia;Anomalepididae

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doi:10.5061/dryad.4p2781m

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of snakes, and suggest that worm snakes might be the only extant fossorial representatives of that primordial snake incursion toward an underground