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Sixty million years ago, not long after the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, a different giant emerged from the swamps of South America. Titanoboa cerrejonensis was unlike any snake ...

Researchers have discovered a 4,400-year-old wooden staff shaped like a snake near a lake in southwest Finland. As Owen Jarus reports for Live Science, archaeologists Satu Koivisto, Antti Lahelma and ...

A 4,000-year-old snake-shaped artifact was recently discovered in Taiwan, archaeologists said. Photo from the National Tsing Hua University's archaeology page Archaeologists in Taiwan unearthed a ...

When zookeepers at the Saint Louis Zoo looked in on their oldest female snake, they were surprised to find her coiled around a clutch of newly laid eggs — especially surprised since she hadn’t been ...

Learn about the debate over snake origins, and how a fossil of an early burrowing snake found in Brazil might provide answers. Snakes have managed to live comfortably without limbs for millions of ...