In Chinese culture, the snake seems to have an intricate relationship with the dragon, a symbolic emblem of the nation. Sometimes they could not be differentiated from each other, in other times ...

A species of ancient snake had hind limbs for around 70 million years before losing them, scientists have discovered. This shows these creatures lived successfully with legs for a very long time ...

A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today. The document, known as the ...

Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus. Fossils and fossil comparisons have revealed the characteristics of this huge ...

Snakes are muscle-noodles that have been biting and thriving for at least 140 million years. And while they’ve gone from squirming alongside dinosaurs to living alongside humans on every continent ...

AN ‘extraoardinary’ fossil belonging to an ancient snake with two hind legs has been uncovered in Argentina. The creature has been named Najash, after the leggy biblical snake Nahash. The new fossil ...

An ancient snakeskin preserves signs of the bright green coloration of its wearer, researchers report online March 31 in Current Biology. The fossilized skin of an 11.2-million- to ...

WASHINGTON >> An ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported today. Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an ...

Similar to Titanoboa, pictured in the artist illustration above, this new species of snake was probably an ambush predator.Credit: Jason Bourque/Florida Museum of Natural History Titanoboa has long ...