A rare 3D snake fossil from Brazil reveals specialized features for burrowing, offering new evidence of how diverse snakes had become during the dinosaur era.

Snakes represent one of the most successful groups of vertebrates on Earth, with over 4,200 living species accounting for one ...

A giant northern green anaconda named Ana Julia was discovered in Brazil. This enormous snake measured nearly eight meters and weighed two hundred kilograms. Ana Julia became famous worldwide for her ...

Paleontologists are raving over a recent discovery of a well-preserved snake fossil from the Cretaceous Period, about 75 to ...

Scientists discover a new species of venomous pit viper in the eastern Himalayas, Ovophis medogensis, after DNA analysis.

Things went horribly wrong when the Discovery Channel promised to show a man devoured by a snake on TV ... although probably not in the way you're thinking.

Last Sunday I was in full dad-football mode. The NFL teams that I actually care about had both lost horribly earlier in the afternoon, and I had transferred my attention to a game where I had no ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of features seen in snakes and geckos—two very distant relatives. One of the ...