Scientists say the “four-legged snake” is a unique ancient creature that lived on planet Earth millions of years ago. This is ...

“From a developmental perspective, this could be one of the most important fossils ever found,” evolutionary biologist Martin Cohn of the University of Florida, Gainesville, told Nature. “The ...

Million-Year-Old Preserved Fossil of ‘Biblical Snake’ Skull That Had Legs Unearthed by Archaeologists A team of paleontologists discovered the well-preserved fossil of an ancient snake skull from La ...

Researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Boaedon broadleyi, or Broadley’s African house snake. Broadley’s African house snakes can reach over 4 feet in length, the study said.

Paleobiologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. found the four-legged snake fossil in Solnhofen, Germany’s Bürgermeister Müller Museum in 2012; the relic was apparently ...