Ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to their bizarre eating habits. Let's take a look at the snake-eaters.

After sitting for over 40 years in a museum collection, a set of small vertebrae has been identified as belonging to a new species of ancient snake, Paradoxophidion richardoweni. This fossil, which ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anterior trunk vertebrae of Vasuki indicus. Sunil Bajpai, co-author of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the Indian ...

Modern anacondas and pythons are massive, but fossil evidence shows they are not even close to the largest snakes to ever ...

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 an ...

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 ...

King Cobra was considered the largest venomous snake to have ever roamed the face of the Earth. Due to its enormous length, the King Cobra was a force.

A colossal snake dating back millions of years ago might’ve been longer than a school bus or T-Rex — and will likely be recorded as one of the longest slithering reptiles to ever roam the Earth, ...

A tiny stone carving unearthed in Israel is said to hold the key to understanding a motif found across ancient cultures. The artifact, discovered during an archaeological dig in Tel Hazor in northern ...

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.

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 ...