Research Filter: how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs helped snakes evolve - a podcast by ABC Radio

Researchers have found that the asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs and many forms of life on the planet, may have helped snakes drastically evolve.

Plus Dr Jane Melville from Museums Victoria looks at how inbreeding may have helped save the rare and endangered Kakapo parrot from extinction, and if there's any indication on what's causing frogs to die off across Eastern Australia during Winter.

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