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 ...

An artist rendering from oldest-known snake fossils shows Paleo reconstructions of three Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous snakes: Portugalophis lignites from Upper Jurassic period in a ginko tree from the ...

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

A 90-million-year-old snake skull discovered in Argentina shed light on how snakes lost their legs. The widespread belief is that these animals shredded their legs to swim better when they inhabited ...

The oldest snake fossils ever discovered represent four new species from three countries. The remarkable findings, published in Nature Communications this week, push our knowledge of the slithery ...

In February 2013, Fernando Garberoglio was searching for fossils in the La Buitrera Paleontological Area, a vast region in Argentina’s Río Negro province. Then an undergraduate paleontology student at ...

Scientists unearthed a 242-million-year-old fossil, Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, in Devon, pushing back the origins of lepidosaurs. This reptile, the oldest known of its kind, challenges previous ...