The oldest known elapoid fossil was found in Tanzania, but DNA studies hint that elapoids might have arisen in Asia. To test this theory, Jeffrey Weinell, now at the American Museum of Natural ...

“The phylogenetic tree of elapoid snakes is so difficult to resolve because of a rapid evolutionary diversification,” says study co-author, Sunandan Das, a faculty in the Organismal and ...

The over 700 species of elapoid snakes are extremely diverse, including both highly venomous reptiles like mambas and sea snakes and many nonvenomous species. They’re found in subtropical and ...

The researchers sequenced genomes for members of all known elapoid families and subfamilies and ran them on supercomputers. They also used nano- and micro-computed tomographic scans for several ...