This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to ...

The mystery of the mock viper—a unique species of snake that mimics other highly venomous species—has finally been solved by scientists. The mock viper, native to Asia, is only mildly venomous itself, ...

The evolutionary history of the mock viper, a mildly venomous, widely distributed Asian snake that mimics highly venomous vipers for self-defense, has been solved. The mock viper represents a ...

Snakes "evolved faster and better" than their peers in an evolutionary singularity that allowed them to become one of the animal kingdom's greatest success stories. A new study led by University of ...

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, new research shows that snakes deserve our recognition as evolutionary superstars. The study, published last week in the journal Science, found that snakes evolve faster than ...

More than 100 million years ago, the ancestors of the first snakes were small lizards that lived alongside other small, nondescript lizards in the shadow of the dinosaurs. More than 100 million years ...

In the arid shale beds of western India, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil that tells the story of a prehistoric snake that once ruled the landscape. Named Vasuki indicus, this massive ...

Mock vipers not only look like tree-dwelling vipers but also act like them. Intriguingly, they have a fake ‘fang’ in the front of their mouth, which befools a predator into thinking that they possess ...