About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose to the top of ...

Eva Longoria isn't the only one interested in hot cheetos. Last week, park rangers in Dinosaur Valley State Park near Fort Worth found a copperhead, one of 105 different species of snake found in ...

Sixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings first scrambled out of their eggs, their first—and last—glimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long snake named ...

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So Dilophosaurus is no longer believed to have been venomous; but what about other dinosaurs?  In 2009, a small, feathered ...

The diets of snakes diversified massively in the aftermath of the mass extinction event that wiped out the non-bird dinosaurs, contributing to the existence of the 4000 snake species we know today.

The doom of the dinosaurs was good news for snakes. According to new research, snake biodiversity began increasing shortly after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction—you know, the one brought ...

After the dinosaurs disappeared, the world saw an explosion of birds and mammals. But a study suggests a burst of new snakes appeared, too, with diets to match the newly expanding array of animals.