Colossal ancient snake discovered in India could be longer than school bus, researchers say By . David Propper. Published April 18, 2024, 9:48 p.m. ET.

WASHINGTON >> An ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported today. Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched ...

The snake is thought to belong to the Madtsoiidae family, which was an ancient lineage of snakes that lived for about 100 million years, between the Late Cretaceous and the Late Pleistocene periods.

Prehistoric engravings of giant snakes along South America’s Orinoco river are among the largest examples of rock art we know of anywhere in the world, with some stretching for more than 40 metres.

Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus. Fossils and fossil comparisons have revealed the characteristics of this huge ...

The fossil of an ancient serpent, Vasuki Indicus, found along the Kutch coast in the Indian state of Gujarat two decades ago, ...

In the arid shale beds of western India, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil that tells the story of a prehistoric ...

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll.

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 ...

NEW YORK -- Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern ...