On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

Paleobiologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. found the four-legged snake fossil in Solnhofen, Germany’s Bürgermeister Müller Museum in 2012; the relic was apparently ...

On a small island of Papua New Guinea, a hawk tried to attack a “large” 4-foot-long predator but ended up becoming its prey instead. A scientist stumbled up on the scene and watched the “shiny” animal ...

The paper, by D.M. Martill at University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, UK, and colleagues was titled, "A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana." ...

or the black net tree snake. Black net tree snakes are considered “large,” reaching about 4 feet, 11 inches in length, the study said. They have “smooth” scales, orange eyes and “dark ...

However, when a sneaky fake snake slithered into this four-legged family’s day, total pandemonium erupted. These fluffy pups quickly transitioned from wagging their tails to wild-eyed panic in ...

“From a developmental perspective, this could be one of the most important fossils ever found,” evolutionary biologist Martin Cohn of the University of Florida, Gainesville, told Nature. “The ...

Scientists found a 4 ... the snake’s enveloping defensive reaction.” Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. → 'Long'-legged ...