In the forested hills of southern India, a venomous 10-foot-long snake slithered along the ground ... Havu,” a reference to the Hindu god Shiva. The new species’ common name refers to the ...

The fossils of this colossal snake species were named after the massive mythological Lord Shiva’s serpent Vasuki. According to the researchers, these snakes lived around 47 million years ago in ...

The snake belonged to the extinct madtsoiidae family and had a broad, cylindrical body. Researchers analysed 27 well-preserved vertebrae from the specimen, estimating their size to determine the ...