Abstract
innovations (e.g., elongate, more movable quadrate and supratemporal bones) could then have allowed boids a broad range of prey types, including many of those currently eaten by advanced snakes. The available data are not consistent with previous suggestions that mammalian prey played an important role in the early evolution of snakes. More recent dietary themes include the consumption of even heavier prey by highly venomous elapids and viperids, sometimes exceeding 150% of the predator's mass. Some other advanced snakes feed frequently on very small items, thereby secondarily resembling lizards in their foraging dynamics.
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