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 ...

The snake skull embraced by the Cerrejón shale mudstone was a piece of Titanoboa that Bloch, Head and their colleagues had been hoping to find for years. “It offers a whole new set of characteristics, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most boas, which are a type of large, non-venomous ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

The idea sounds ridiculous at first, like something pulled from a horror film or an internet myth that refuses to […] ...

Bloch laughed. “I don’t think so.” Eventually they agreed that Titanoboa ’s skull was different from that of other boas, but they couldn’t determine if the extinct animal was more closely related to a ...