Fossils unearthed in Gujarat, India, reveal an exceptionally large snake from the Eocene era, approximately 47 million years ...

Scientists originally believed a fossil found in 2015 to be the missing 'four-legged snake.' Now, a new study says that the fossil isn't a snake at all. A paper originally published in July of 2015 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Snakes have been slithering on Earth far longer than anyone ever realized. Scientists on Tuesday described the four oldest-known snake fossils, the most ancient of which ...

“From a developmental perspective, this could be one of the most important fossils ever found,” evolutionary biologist Martin Cohn of the University of Florida, Gainesville, told Nature. “The ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Four ...

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 fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile’s dining habits and evolution, scientists said Tuesday. The ...

A fossil once thought to be a snake with four legs, connecting lizards and early snakes, is not the missing link scientists had hoped for. "It has long been understood that snakes are members of a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...