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Why aren't any snakes in Ireland?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Scientists have found no fossil evidence of snakes living in Ireland going back to the last ice age. Once the glaciers retreated, the climate warmed and sea levels rose snakes were unable, evidently, to reach the island of Ireland from the mainland of Europe.

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