This brilliant rainbow snake looks like something straight out of a fairytale! What's the science behind its magical iridescent sheen?

A remarkable fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, unearthed on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offers crucial insights into snake evolution. This 167-million-yea ...

A new species of dinosaur that is thought to have lived around 167 million years ago has been discovered in the UK. The ...

The reptile had snake-like jaws and highly recurved teeth like a python’s, though the same limbs and proportions as a lizard. The fossil is among the oldest and most complete Jurassic lizards known to ...

The announcement of Breugnathair elgolensis is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work, after an international ...

Researchers have named the species Breugnathair elgolensis, or “false snake of Elgol,” after the Skye site where it lived ...

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North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that Columbian and wooly mammoths regularly had calves together where the ...

A rumor that circulated in June 2025 claimed to show a collage of two authentic X-rays of a person with 81 teeth. According to many of the posts, the X-rays, which showed a skull from two angles, ...

Some male “ghost sharks” have a bizarre way of giving love bites: They use teeth that sprout from their foreheads. These otherworldly animals, also known as spotted ratfish, can grab onto mates using ...

Ozempic has been a hot-button topic recently. The prescription drug, semaglutide, is most commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, but over the last few years, it has surged in popularity among people ...