A prehistoric snake, Sanajeh indicus, discovered in India, may have preyed on baby dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western ...

A juvenile female boa constrictor in a shed cycle, indicated by the blue opaque eyes. Image by XPS420, CC BY-SA 3.0 A juvenile female boa constrictor in a shed cycle, indicated by the blue opaque eyes ...

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 ...

Prehistoric snakes have a habit of getting more terrifying with each new discovery. The latest prehistoric snake species to be described is truly ginormous. Here’s what experts have discovered so far ...

Fossilized remains of Laophis crotaloides, an extinct snake species from Greece, suggest it was significantly larger than ...

NEW YORK -- Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern ...

The story started with Debajit Datta and Sunil Bajpai, who analyzed a set of 27 vertebrae dug from the Panandhro Lignite Mine in Kutch. Some of the bones are still attached, which helped experts get ...

Prehistoric engravings of giant snakes along South America’s Orinoco river are among the largest examples of rock art we know of anywhere in the world, with some stretching for more than 40 metres.