Snake vs. DinosaurA prehistoric snake is poised to make a meal of a newly hatched dinosaur in this life-size reconstruction of 67-million-year-old fossils unearthed in India. (Read full story.) ...

Just call it the Jura-sssss-ic Period. Newly identified fossils suggest that snakes slithered through much of the golden age of the dinosaurs, a finding that pushes back the fossil record for ...

One of these predators was a 3.5-metre-long snake called Sanajeh indicus. Towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs, one decided to raid a nest of a sauropod eggs, perhaps attracted by the noise ...

Not only do his findings offer clues on how these reptiles may have evolved, they also reveal that the snakes of the dinosaur age probably didn't look all that different than their modern-day ...

The doom of the dinosaurs was good news for snakes. According to new research, snake biodiversity began increasing shortly after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction—you know, the one ...

When they analyzed both the diets and the evolutionary relationships amongst hundreds of present-day snakes, the pair found that the mass extinction that finished off the dinosaurs was a game ...

Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling. This is the first evidence of snakes eating dinosaurs. "It's a stunning, once-in-a ...

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED The doom of the dinosaurs was good news for snakes. According to new research, snake biodiversity began ...

New Delhi - A 67-million-year-old fossil of a gigantic snake coiled around dinosaur eggs found in western India has led scientists to conclude the ancient snakes a fed on dinosaur hatchlings ...

indicating greater ecological diversity among early snakes than previously thought,” the researchers explain, in the study. The Mesozoic era, also known as “the age of the dinosaurs,” or ...

Even dinosaurs may have been afraid of snakes, a new discovery suggests. Scientists have unearthed the almost complete fossil skeleton of an 11ft prehistoric snake that preyed on baby dinosaurs.