This time, it is the beautifully preserved skull of an ancient snake with rear limbs, Najash rionegrina. Our study of this fossil has been published in the journal Science Advances.

But after that harsh lesson, it likely won’t bother another secretary bird anytime soon. The post This Powerful Bird Can Crush a Snake’s Skull, No Problem appeared first on A-Z Animals.

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about ...

A 90-million-year-old snake skull discovered in Argentina shed light on how snakes lost their legs. The widespread belief is that these animals shredded their legs to swim better when they ...

If you had a head like a snake's, you could swallow a watermelon whole, no problem! All you need is a flexible skull, backward-curved teeth and very elastic skin.

Yi and Norell examined the inner ear of the D. patagonica skull with CT scans and compared virtual 3D models of that prehistoric snake’s inner ear along with the inner ears of contemporary reptiles.

Every skull was individually cleaned and all 40 mummies were refreshed. Video projectors were refocused and lighting fixtures were replaced. The large audio-animatronic snake and rolling ball in ...