A giant snake called Vasuki indicus, longer than a school bus, lived in India 47 million years ago. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee found its vertebrae fossils in a coal ...

A prehistoric sinkhole in Florida preserved fossils for half a million years until their discovery in 2022, offering rare ...

Pythons and Anacondas are some of the largest snakes in the world today, but what about prehistoric snakes? Has anyone ever found fossils of snakes from long ago? How big do you think “dinosaur snakes ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

Scientists in India have uncovered the fossilized remains of a snake so enormous it dwarfs its modern relatives. Measuring a ...

As a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Jakarta fast approached in September 2023, Indonesia’s state-run electricity ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

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The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million years before the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. It has ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

It's this latter property that led to the discovery of the giant exoplanet Gaia-4b. It orbits a star 244 light-years away and is a super-sized gas giant with a mass 11.8 times greater than that of ...

The copperhead snake can easily blend in among fallen, dead leaves, so much so that if a person isn’t careful, they could step on one. Missouri Wildlife reposted a Facebook post that has a photo ...