When attacked by a predator, the reptiles can play dead with convincing detail, employing blood and feces for the show ...
Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year, leading to around 130 deaths. And it is in the Amazon that the ...
Titanoboa was one of the biggest known snake to have ever existed. Dating back 60 million years, this snake was the prehistoric grandfather of the region’s modern-day anacondas and boas.
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 ...
SCIENTISTS have discovered the remains of the world's biggest snake that lurked in swamps 47million years ago. Fossilised remains of the ancient snake species dubbed Vasuki Indicus show the beast ...
Snakes escape predators by playing dead — and they make their performances even more convincing by smearing themselves with ...
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 ...
The fossil remains of the world’s largest snake have been found in India’s Gujurat, The Guardian reported. Known as the Vasuki Indicus, the fossil is estimated to be 47 million years old and ...
Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15 metres long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the ...
Now extinct Titanoboa was a giant snake that lived during the Paleocene Epoch, 58–60 million years ago. It measured 48 feet and weighed more than one tonne ...
If estimates of its size are accurate, it will edge out the current largest-ever snake — the Cenozoic Titanoboa, at 13 meters long. Vasuki’s world was scorching, compared to today’s.