Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miami, UNITED STATES: A 12-foot (3.65m) Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home slithers on the ground at its ...

A single fossilized bone has unlocked a surprising chapter in Taiwan's ancient past - one in which a giant python stretching more than 13 feet long slithered across an island that today has no pythons ...

Clues to saber-toothed cats’ demise are emerging from fossils entombed in California’s sticky La Brea Tar Pits. Fossils of the extinct predators preserved in tar reveal a diversity of spinal maladies.

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago.