Hordle Cliff has been a fossil-hunting ground for roughly 200 years, with early discoveries dating back to the 1800s, including the collection of crocodile relatives by Barbara Rawdon-Hastings. The ...

The discovery of a rare Cretaceous fossil that could have been a missing link in the evolution of modern snakes made headlines in 2015. It was dubbed Tetrapodophis amplectus (“four-footed serpent”) ...

A Churah Valley Kukri (Oligodon churahensis), which shares similarities with the common Kukri snake, a stripy, egg-eating reptile that isn’t venomous. (Mirza et al.) Turns out Instagram isn’t just ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Locked down at home during the pandemic last year, a postgraduate student in India’s Himalayan region photographed a snake in his backyard that experts had never before seen. Uploaded to Instagram, ...

Michael d’Estries is a co-founder of the green celebrity blog Ecorazzi. He has been writing about culture, science, and sustainability since 2005. His work has appeared on Business Insider, and CNN.