Interesting Engineering on MSN7 个月
‘Largest snake’ species to have ever lived on Earth may have been discovered
The Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of snakes that lived between the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) and the Late Pleistocene.
BBC6 年
Baby snake 'frozen in time' gives insight into lost world
The fossil of a baby snake has been discovered entombed inside amber. The creature has been frozen in time for 99 million years. The snake lived in what is now Myanmar, during the age of the ...
National Geographic news13 年
Cretaceous Period
After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures, such as frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and snakes, proliferated on the ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
When did dinosaurs live?
During the Cretaceous the land separated further into some of the continents we recognise today, although in different positions. This meant that dinosaurs evolved independently in different parts of ...