This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

It is easy to think of snakes as creatures that were always legless, gliding effortlessly through grass or sand. Yet millions of years ago, their ancestors had four fully formed limbs. The journey ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

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 ...

Fossils reveal snakes once possessed functional legs, challenging the notion of a linear evolutionary path. The discovery of ...

The skull of the “footed snake” that lived 95 million years ago was found in excellent condition. This discovery denies the belief that snake ancestors have so far, and a new hypothesis has emerged. “ ...

New fossils found in Australia tell us that enormous snakes evolved from predatory lizards like goannas, scientists say. Palaeontologist Dr John Scanlon describes the well-preserved 25 to 20 ...