Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new. In the past several years, we've seen ones designed to swim through debris, help out at construction sites, perform surveillance, and ...

However, the image was not of any snake fossil but a gigantic art installation. If you've been on social media in the last few days, you've probably seen a video that purports to show the world's ...

Sixty million years ago, not long after the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, a different giant emerged from the swamps of South America. Titanoboa cerrejonensis was unlike any snake ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...