Harry W. Greene

TL;DR: This is a scientific book that provides accurate information in an accessible way to general readers, strongly advocates for a persecuted group of animals, encourages conservation--not just of snakes but of ecosystems--and credits science for enriching the authors' lives.

TL;DR: These findings, previous studies, and morphological considerations suggest that very early snakes used constriction and powerful jaws to feed on elongate, heavy prey, which would have permitted a shift from feeding often on small items to feeding rarely on heavy items without initially requiring major changes in jaw structure relative to a lizard-like ancestor.

TL;DR: Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long‐lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a global scale, and broaden the underlying premise of conservation from managing extinction to encompass restoring ecological and evolutionary processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used mitochondrial gene sequences to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships among subspecies of the bushmaster Lachesis muta, which is widely distributed in lowland tropical forests in Central and South America, where three of four allopatric subspecies are separated by montane barriers.

TL;DR: Conservation efforts are currently in a state of transition, with active debate about the relative importance of preserving historical landscapes with minimal human impact on one end of the ideological spectrum versus manipulating novel ecosystems that result from human activities on the other.