Twenty-seven massive vertebrae uncovered in Gujarat reveal an extinct ambush predator that rivaled the largest snakes ever ...

Researchers have identified Vasuki indicus from fossils unearthed in Gujarat as one of the longest snakes ever known. The find broadens evidence of giant prehistoric snakes in India and its ancient ...

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur.

This video follows the discovery of Titanoboa, a massive prehistoric snake found in Colombia’s Cerrejón coal mine after fossils were first mistaken for other animals. Scientists eventually identified ...

The world’s deepest known whale graveyard has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean at a depth of 7 kilometres. The remains found there include a new species of extinct beaked whale and other ...

Excavator Pikachu is ready to report for duty. The Pokémon Fossil Museum first opened in Japan in 2021, an initial collaboration between the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, four ...

The post A Snake Bigger Than Titanoboa May Have Roamed Ancient India appeared first on A-Z Animals. Prehistoric snakes have a habit of getting more terrifying with each new discovery. The latest ...

Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the ...

A juvenile female boa constrictor in a shed cycle, indicated by the blue opaque eyes. Image by XPS420, CC BY-SA 3.0 In terms of the find, the fossil material includes 27 mostly well-preserved vertebra ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than belonging to a miniature species, they are actually baby ankylosaurs—some less ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...