After sitting for over 40 years in a museum collection, a set of small vertebrae has been identified as belonging to a new species of ancient snake, Paradoxophidion richardoweni. This fossil, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist.

Imagine facing a constrictor so massive its body was twice the width of a human torso. Vasuki Indicus stretched an ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Back in 1999, a team of international scientists began work in the Sahara desert in northern Africa. This ancient ocean was home to more than fish; it was the personal hunting ground of the largest ...

Introduction: Seeing and knowing -- Ancient snakes, modern snakes: "what is a snake?" -- Ancient snake lizards: the fossil record -- The anatomy of ancient snake lizards -- Ancient snake lizard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A study of anaconda fossils shows that these snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and then stopped growing. As ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...