Is this snake actually longer than a school bus? Get to know Vasuki indicus, the longest snake to have ever lived
Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake fossil discovered in Gujarat, India, measures an astounding 49 feet in length, surpassing ...
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Snakes: Facts about one of the most iconic creatures in animal hiss-tory
Primitive snakes fossils dating to the Early Cretaceous (145 to 100.5 million years ago) feature tiny limbs as well, indicating that legs persisted for quite some time during the early evolution of ...
Vasuki indicus from India is one of the longest snake species to have ever lived, growing to even 49 feet!
Named after the mythical serpent Vasuki from Hindu mythology, it belonged to the now-extinct Madtsoiidae family, a group of ...
Snakes' secret language of ultraviolet color: A hidden world of predator evasion and camouflage
In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...
The Largest Sea Snake Of All Time Grew Up To 40 Feet Long And Hunted Whales—A Herpetologist Explains
Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide ...
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Legless Lizard vs. Snake: Are They Actually Different Animals?
glass lizards and snakes appear to come from similar beginnings. In 2007, scientists discovered a 95-million-year-old fossil that's the oldest known proof of the lizard's evolution to a legless state.
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Evolution of the snake visual system
Understanding the evolution of vision in snakes, such as this pipe snake (Anilius scytale), could improve our knowledge of snake origins and the evolution of the ...