AN ‘extraoardinary’ fossil belonging to an ancient snake with two hind legs has been uncovered in Argentina. The creature has been named Najash, after the leggy biblical snake Nahash. The new fossil ...

On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil is unearthed that provides an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of a group of organisms. This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ...

Snakes may have wandered about on legs for 70 million years before becoming the slithering serpents we see today. Our understanding of how snakes evolved their long, legless bodies and highly mobile ...

It may not sound like the obvious place to look when trying to determine how snakes lost their limbs, but the inner ear of a fossilised skull could finally solve the mystery. CT scans of a ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

Snake evolution has intrigued scientists for years because they knew that these complex vertebrates once had limbs and adapted over time to live without them in dramatic fashion. But a limited fossil ...

The first known fossil remains of a baby snake have turned up in a hunk of amber found in Myanmar. The critter, a new species named Xiaophis myanmarensis, met its untimely demise about 99 million ...