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 ...

A juvenile female boa constrictor in a shed cycle, indicated by the blue opaque eyes. Image by XPS420, CC BY-SA 3.0 In terms of the find, the fossil material includes 27 mostly well-preserved vertebra ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The snake is one of the oldest symbols of spirituality and medicine. Its image appears in ancient artifacts, scriptures, and healing rituals worldwide. The serpent’s ability to shed its skin was seen ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of reptile, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, is offering new clues in the search ...

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

About 60 million years ago, the hot, hot forests of South America were populated by a snake that probably weighed more than a ton and measured nearly 43 feet long, say scientists who discovered its ...