Scientists digging at a farm in India found a 1-foot-long creature with a “tail shield” and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View April 2024 ...

Across the Indian countryside, a familiar but often unseen threat is quietly changing. Russell’s viper, already one of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Indian subcontinent, which includes the countries of ...

A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to have ever ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Researchers in India have discovered an absolute beast of a ...

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 ...

Scientists in India have uncovered the fossilized remains of a snake so enormous it dwarfs its modern relatives. Measuring a ...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - ...

Sunil Bajpai, co-author of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, first discovered the fossilized snake remains in 2005 at a coal mine in western ...