That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake species with hind legs following earlier evidence of ...

Significant insights into snake evolution have come to light with an intriguing discovery of an ancient snake fossil found in ...

An international team led by Michael Caldwell from the University of Alberta reexamined fossilized skull and jaw bones belonging to 13 snake groups stored in museum collections. They identified ...