Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed. Fossil ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some estimates suggesting it stretched longer than a modern city bus and ...

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 ...

Imagine a snake so enormous it could block a doorway. Scientists recently uncovered Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever known. This giant lived 58 million years ago, shortly after ...

On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil is unearthed that provides an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of a group of organisms. This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ...

A fossil specimen stored for decades in a London museum has recently been recognized as a distinct and previously undocumented species of ancient snake. The vertebrae, long overlooked, were found in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a snake ...

On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil is unearthed that provides an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of a group of organisms. This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ...

Snakes have always been surrounded by mystery and interest from people, both for the legendary stories surrounding them and also their frightening appearance. Their silent movements, venomous bites, ...