1Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven,using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record

The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, ry history of early snakes complete picture of the early evolution of snakes to date. More broadly, we demonstrate the striking influence of Hsiang et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2015) 15:87 DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0358-5Connecticut 06520, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleincluding fossils and phenotypic data in combined analyses aimed at both phylogenetic topology inference and ancestral state reconstruction