Scientists Uncover Giant Snake Fossil That Dwarfs the Enormous Titanoboa ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

Fossils reveal snakes once possessed functional legs, challenging the notion of a linear evolutionary path. The discovery of Najash rionegrina, a 90-million-year-old terrestrial snake with intact ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

A fossil find in Argentina has revealed a two-legged creature that's the most primitive snake known, a discovery that promises to fire up the scientific debate about whether snakes evolved on land or ...

The fossil record of squamates, encompassing both lizards and snakes, provides an intricate account of evolutionary innovation over millions of years. Fossils elucidate key morphological transitions, ...

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history. Courtesy ...

Anacondas have been giants of the animal world for over 12 million years, reveals new research. Analysis of fossils from South America shows that the tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 ...

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.

King Cobra was considered the largest venomous snake to have ever roamed the face of the Earth. Due to its enormous length, ...

The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species. From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our ...