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Life restoration of Najash rionegrina through the dunes of the landscape of the Kokorkom desert that extended across Río Negro (Northern Patagonia), Argentina during the Late Cretaceous (100 million years ago).

Beautifully Preserved Skull of 'Biblical Snake' with Hind Legs Discovered

By Michael Caldwell, Alessandro Palci

Scientists have unearthed an amazingly preserved skull of an ancient snake with hind limbs, revealing more about the origin of snakes and how they lost their legs.

Olive python feeding on a wallaby.

Python Swallows Crocodile Whole. Photographer Captures Every Last, Grisly 'Bite.'

By Stephanie Pappas

Teeth and scales didn't stop an Australian olive python from getting a meal.

Anaconda Snake

Anaconda Mom Gives Birth to Baby Clones, No Male Required

By Isobel Whitcomb

What Should You Do If You're Bitten by a Venomous Snake?

By Mindy Weisberger

Above all, remain calm.

This stock photo shows an Australian olive python.

Enormous Python Swallows, Vomits Up Even Bigger Python

By Rafi Letzter

An Australian python vomited up a larger Australian python that it had eaten earlier.

three-eyed snake

3-Eyed Snake Found in Australia Surprises Rangers

By Laura Geggel

Rangers in Australia could hardly believe their eyes when they came across a wild snake with three functioning peepers on its head.

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Captured 17-Foot-Long Python Was About to Have 73 Babies

By Laura Geggel

'Mystery Dinner Snake' Found in Belly of Another Snake Finally Identified

By Mindy Weisberger

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.

So Many Ticks Were Feasting on This Unlucky Python, They Looked Like Living Scales

By Mindy Weisberger

Some 511 bloodsucking ticks were removed from this snake.

Younger stone snake

8,300-Year-Old Stone Snake Heads Reveal Stone Age Ritual Ceremonies

By Laura Geggel

What might be passed over as two oddly shaped rocks are the work of Stone Age artisans who sculpted the rocks into beady-eyed snake heads, archaeologists have found.

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Bounty Hunter Kills Gargantuan Burmese Python, Gets $375, Earns Our Undying Gratitude

By Brandon Specktor

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Oldest Fossil of a Baby Snake Discovered Trapped in Amber Tomb

By Mindy Weisberger

A fossil of a baby snake entombed in amber dates to 99 million years ago.

Reticulated python

How a Python Ate a Woman Whole and Left Hardly a Trace of the Fierce Attack

By Laura Geggel

These Gourmet Snakes Prefer to Eat Snails

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

Five new species of snail-eating snakes were discovered in Ecuador.

Decapitated snake head

Decapitated Snake Head Bites Man. But How?

By Laura Geggel

Shortly after a man killed a rattlesnake in his backyard, the rattlesnake's severed head bit and injected venom into the man, seriously injuring him.

Deadly Pressure: Why These Two Men's Muscles 'Blew Up' From the Inside

By Mindy Weisberger

A life-threatening condition with a boring-sounding name has consequences that are gruesome and potentially deadly.

Pythons Are Cold-Blooded Killers, But At Least They're Not Negligent Mothers

By Mindy Weisberger

Python moms care for their babies, even though it wears them down.

Unfortunate Python Paid 'Deerly' for a Too-Big Meal

By Mindy Weisberger

A deer swallowed (and barfed up again) by a snake weighed more than its predator.

The King (Cobra) Is Dead (and So Is the Python)

By Mindy Weisberger

Judging by the interlocked combatants' bodies, no quarter was given in the final minutes of this deadly struggle.

Python hunter Jason Leon (far right) caught a more than 17-foot-long python near Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida.

Just How Rare Is That Giant Python Captured in the Everglades?

By Dan Robitzski

Hunters caught a record-breaking 17-foot-long (5 meters) Burmese python in the Everglades on Dec. 1, but experts say there are likely hundreds of the massive snakes still in hiding.