Most snakes flee or fight when attacked. Then there are the dice snakes of Golem Grad, an island on a lake in North Macedonia. Grabbed by a predator, they writhe theatrically, soi ...
Dice snakes play dead when attacked by predators, putting on a display that includes smearing themselves with their own poop and letting blood ooze from their mouths.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...