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

A team pushed nearly 3 miles deep into a cave where almost no one ever reaches — and made a discovery that stunned them.

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 ...

Back in 1999, a team of international scientists began work in the Sahara desert in northern Africa. This ancient ocean was ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

King Cobra was considered the largest venomous snake to have ever roamed the face of the Earth. Due to its enormous length, ...

There are other genes and enhancers related to limb loss in snakes. One of the genes involved is known as the Sonic hedgehog ...

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 ...

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.