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 winged serpent in Ancient Greece reveals a profound, long-forgotten link between distant ancient civilizations.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anterior trunk vertebrae of Vasuki indicus. Sunil Bajpai, co-author of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the Indian ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed. Fossil evidence shows that an ancient snake species once grew to several times ...

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 ...

A colossal snake dating back millions of years ago might’ve been longer than a school bus or T-Rex — and will likely be recorded as one of the longest slithering reptiles to ever roam the Earth, ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever exist. Scientists have uncovered prehistoric snake fossils that reveal ...

Egyptologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old tomb just south of Cairo containing numerous magical sayings meant to ward off snake bites. The tomb's entrance was covered with sayings aimed to both ...

Skim along the Orinoco River on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, and you might catch glimpses of a mythological spirit world engraved into rocks lining the riverbanks. Depictions of ...