A n ancient species of snake has been found in England, and it is – and this is a scientific term – “bizarre”. We’re not ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

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 ...

For centuries, snakes have been symbols of change, growth, evolution, and adaptation, found across most landforms, be it in ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed.

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 ...

Introduction: Seeing and knowing -- Ancient snakes, modern snakes: "what is a snake?" -- Ancient snake lizards: the fossil record -- The anatomy of ancient snake lizards -- Ancient snake lizard ...