The oldest snake fossil on record looks almost like a modern snake, except for one glaring difference: It has four feet, each with five digits, a new study finds. The roughly 120-million-year-old ...

The oldest snake fossil on record looks almost like a modern snake, except for one glaring difference: It has four feet, each with five digits, a new study finds. The roughly 120-million-year-old ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists originally believed a fossil found in 2015 to be the missing ‘four-legged ...

This prediction was bolstered in 2006 with the discovery of a transitional snake-like fossil (Najash rionegrina) with two hind limbs dating back some 95 million years. There is also an ongoing ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A mysterious fossil previously thought to be a four-legged snake is ...

Its Latin name, Tetrapodophis amplectus, loosely translates as "four-legged hugging snake". The fossil was originally unearthed in Brazil several decades ago but nobody spotted its remarkable tiny ...

To most researchers, it was just a slab of stone from Brazil sitting in an obscure British museum. Labeled "unknown fossil vertebrate," it had been overlooked for years and was collecting dust ...

"There are many evolutionary questions that could be answered by finding a four-legged snake fossil, but only if it is the real deal. The major conclusion of our team is that Tetrapodophis ...

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a prehistoric giant marine snake, Pterosphenus schucherti, from India's Kachchh Basin 1. Comparisons with Pterosphenus remains from India, Africa and ...

The partial skeleton of another giant snake, Wonambi Naracoortensis, discovered in Australia. This partial fossil belonged to a snake that was about 19 feet long. Amy Toensing / Getty Images Two ...

Beyond reptiles, the fossil find carries broader clues to India’s climate tens of millions of years ago. “It’s also just a cool snake because it was so big,” he says, comparing its length ...