A brand new species of ancient snake has been discovered in western ... said in a statement. These fossils being found clustered in a group in a hibernaculum implies that this ancient species ...

Most fossils, plant or animal ... The problem with sizing ancient snakes is that you never have the whole spine in a neatly articulated row. You get individual bones, maybe pairs and occasionally ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It didn’t fly or roar– it slithered, and it did so with incredible ...

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Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

Paleobiologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. found the four-legged snake fossil in Solnhofen, Germany’s Bürgermeister Müller Museum in 2012; the relic was apparently ...

Indian scientists have made a major discovery– fossil remains of a giant prehistoric snake species that once lived in what's now Gujarat. Named Vasuki indicus, this ancient snake is believed to ...

Vasuki was considered the serpent king coiled around Lord Shiva. Recently, a massive snake fossil was discovered that is considered to be of Vasuki Indicus. Scientifically, this is considered is ...