And as Lord Shiva is the supreme ascetic and the destroyer of evil, the snake coiled around his neck also makes people wonder whether this snake is a king cobra or some other serpent. Lord Shiva ...

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 ...