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 ...

Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they uncovered the fossilized remains of a partial vertebral column in Western India.

A fossil of a brand new species of ancient snake has been uncovered in India, and it may have been one of the largest snakes to have ever existed. In comparison, the largest modern-day snakes are the ...

Earth, our dynamic and life-sustaining planet, is approximately 4.543 billion years old. Over these vast eons, it has undergone dramatic transformations—from fiery origins and shifting continents to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anterior trunk vertebrae of Vasuki indicus. Sunil Bajpai, co-author of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the Indian ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - ...

It sounds like something fabricated in a nightmare — a 48-foot-long snake that weighs 2,500 pounds. But the titanoboa cerrejonensis isn't a mythical creature. It slithered on Earth, dining on ...