The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeastAsia where high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals whose body temperatures are dependant on ambient environmental temperatures (poikilothermy.
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossils
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