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Fossils recovered from Kutch in Gujarat may have belonged to the spine of one of the largest snakes to have ever lived, ...

If you aren't a fan of snakes, then this story might not be for you - as it is about a sssseriously long one. The fossils from a snake which scientists say is one of the largest that ever lived ...

none of them hibernate in the way that garter snakes do," study co-author Michael Caldwell, a professor of paleontology at the University of Alberta, said in a statement. These fossils being found ...

Baby snake fossil 'frozen in time' 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat Rattlesnakes' sound ‘trick’ fools human ears "In this environment of the collapse of food chains ...

Scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a ...

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The findings push back the origins of the lizard-snake group called Squamata by 35 million years to at least 205 million years ago, according to Phys.org. The fossil was unearthed from Triassic ...

which has previously yielded unique fossils of an ancient cassowary, a crocodile and possibly a giant snake. Bullock Creek's Elseya mudburra predates megafauna found at another Miocene-period ...