What Aspidites really are...

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Originally Posted by prairiepanda

My school library has access to that paper. It's pretty long, so I didn't go into great depth reading it, but according to the genetic evidence Aspidites most likely evolved after Python and branched from species with "normal" heat pits. So yes, the rostral heat pit is a result of convergent evolution and not a remnant from their more primitive ancestors.

Thanks for looking into that

Pretty cool