Volunteer fossil hunters and trained paleontologists uncover a new Australian dinosaur and the oldest known megaraptorid.
Near dinosaur nesting sites, fossil finds showed that this snake fed on hatchlings and perhaps even titanosaurs, dinosaurs that eat plants with sizes massive enough to consume entire trees.
Just like lizards are only distantly related to dinosaurs today, so are snakes. Ancestors of snakes are also part of the same group as lizards that split in the Late Triassic period. Snakes ...
"All of these guys — snakes and turtles and crocodiles and birds, and the dinosaurs when they were around — they all come back to one common ancestor," Stervander explained, and so under the ...
(Header image: A special set of lanterns celebrating the Year of the Snake showcases scenes from the Legend of the White Snake at the 31st Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival in Zigong, ...
From the colossal Titanoboa in ancient Colombia to the transitional form Eophis in England and the dinosaur-hunting Sanajeh in India, these ancient snakes showcase incredible evolutionary ...