An ancient species of snake which lived about 47 million years ago may have been one of the biggest snakes to have ever lived, research suggests. The newly identified animal, dubbed Vasuki Indicus, ...

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New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This ...

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WASHINGTON >> An ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported today. Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an ...

(CNN) — A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. (CNN) — A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school ...

Imagine this: A snake-like creature as long as a bus glides through the sea–on the hunt. Sounds like a nightmare? Fortunately, it remains just that, as this animal has long been extinct. Fossils of ...

The southern hognose snake commonly dies in traffic. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday reversed course and proposed listing the southern hognose snake as a threatened species, marking a big ...

Researchers in India have discovered a giant extinct snake, measuring up to 50 feet long and believed to be the largest madtsoiid snake ever recorded. The Vasuki indicus specimen dates back 47 million ...