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 ...

New study debunks controversial 2015 fossil find: It’s not a four-limbed snake after all Its anatomy is consistent with that of extinct marine lizards known as dolichosaurs.

A legged snake fossil found in 2003 in Patagonia, Argentina, may be the most primitive snake ever found - the sacral region is shown here An articulated portion of the Najash fossil Scientists ...

This illustration shows what the four-legged fossil -- which a team of scientists now says is a marine lizard and not a snake -- might have looked like. Julius Csotonyi ...

A mysterious fossil previously thought to be a four-legged snake is actually an ancient lizard, a new analysis suggests. Researchers first identified the roughly 120 million-year-old specimen from ...

Recently, a significant find has rekindled interest in snake evolution—a fossil snake named Tetrapodophis amplectus, ...

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 ...

A section of the fossil vertebra of Pterosphenus schucherti.Credit: Renzo D'souza. Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a prehistoric giant marine snake, Pterosphenus schucherti, from India's ...

Fossils recovered from Kutch in Gujarat may have belonged to the spine of one of the largest snakes to ever have lived, according to new research from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.