Instead, they determined the bones belonged to a member of an extinct family of terrestrial snakes called Madtsoiidae that ...

In India, researchers have discovered the fossilized bones of a giant extinct snake that measured up to a staggering 50 feet long and may have weighed up to 2,200 pounds. It is believed to be one ...

Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases, eggs. Their diets range ...

Dan_Koleska/ Shutterstock Snakes have lots of bones, but fewer types of bones than us. As well as their skull, they have 100–400 vertebrae in their spine and up to 200 more in their tail. Adjoining ...

Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and thorn trees. She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones.