A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

Discovered in a German museum but potentially smuggled from Brazil, this lizard fossil ignited fierce debates over scientific ethics, fossil trade, and the global ownership of natural history.

Snake evolution has intrigued scientists for years because they knew that these complex vertebrates once had limbs and adapted over time to live without them in dramatic fashion. But a limited fossil ...

NEW YORK -- 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 ...

Some 120 million years ago, dinosaurs still ruled the world – and some snakes had four legs. That’s according to a new analysis of a fossil unearthed in Brazil. But some researchers think that the ...

Hidden for 95 million years beneath layers of sediment, the remarkablywell-preserved skull of an ancient legged snake species — Najash rionegrina — has now revealed a chapter of evolutionary history ...

“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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops.

NEW YORK — 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 ...