Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some estimates suggesting it stretched longer than a modern city bus and ...

Beneath ordinary ground, discoveries still wait that quietly redraw assumptions about life long before humans paid attention. Fossils tend to arrive in fragments, then patterns start forming, and ...