Hinged teeth in snakes: an adaptation for swallowing hard-bodied prey.

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• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1981-04-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.212.4492.346PMID 17792091
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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