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A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to have ever ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in western India, scientists have uncovered fossil vertebrae from the largest snake ever to live, a creature that could have reached lengths up to 15 meters—longer than ...

Vertebrae found in a mine in India could belong to a serpent over twice as big as any modern snake. reading time 2 minutes A newly described fossil snake in India may be the largest that ever lived, ...

Scientists in India have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that may be the largest known serpent to ever live. The supersized serpent may have measured 50 feet (15 meters) long — ...

Earth, our dynamic and life-sustaining planet, is approximately 4.543 billion years old. Over these vast eons, it has undergone dramatic transformations—from fiery origins and shifting continents to ...

The Titanoboa was a one-ton, 48-foot-long snake who lived 58-million years ago. Scientists thought it couldn’t exist. Yet, they discovered its fossil in Cerrajón, Colombia. She was a constrictor that ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they uncovered the fossilized remains of a partial vertebral column in Western India.

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.

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