The most intriguing fossils tell a story about the animal’s life, or where and how it lived, and paleontologists have now uncovered a doozy. The fossils of a dinosaur and a small mammal have been ...

The doom of the dinosaurs was good news for snakes. According to new research, snake biodiversity began increasing shortly after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction—you know, the one brought ...

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Sixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings first scrambled out of their eggs, their first—and last—glimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long snake named ...

The diets of snakes diversified massively in the aftermath of the mass extinction event that wiped out the non-bird dinosaurs, contributing to the existence of the 4000 snake species we know today.

Samuel L. Jackson bemoaned the slithering serpent in the movie Snakes on a Plane. He “had it” with these snakes on planes. What has not had it with snakes, however, is Earth. But it was never a ...

Sixty million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had vanished, a new ruler emerged in the sweltering rainforests of South America. It wasn’t a dinosaur, a crocodile, or any creature we might expect, ...

Imagine the era of giant snakes dominating Earth; the massive size could easily hunt creatures larger than them. These ancient serpents were not only predators but true monsters ruling over the lands ...

After the dinosaurs disappeared, the world saw an explosion of birds and mammals. But a study suggests a burst of new snakes appeared, too, with diets to match the newly expanding array of animals.