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, ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Discover the monster snake that makes all modern snakes seem small by comparison. Learn about Titanoboa, the biggest snake to roam the Earth!

Snakes have slithered through the planet’s history for over 160 million years, but their beginnings are still full of question marks. Scientists agree they came from lizards, but which ones? And why ...

New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This ...

“The snakes are in real trouble right now,” Chris Bugbee, a Southwest conservation advocate at the Center, which advocates for policies that protect threatened and endangered species, told Cronkite ...

Scientists hiking in Singapore rediscovered a species last seen 64 years ago and considered locally extinct. Photo shows a representative forest. Photo from Antonio Ron via Unsplash Hiking through a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Over 250 snake species are listed as endangered around the ...

The eastern massasauga rattlesnake is native to the lower peninsula of Michigan and several other Great Lakes states.