India, April 19 -- In a significant discovery, researchers from IIT Roorkee have described fossils of a new snake species which lived around 47 million years ago in Gujarat, as possibly one of the largest snakes to have ever lived in India.

The research done by Prof Sunil Bajpai and post-doctoral fellow Debajit Datta from IIT Roorkee showed that the snake species, scientifically dubbed as Vasuki Indicus and part of the now extinct madtsoiidae snake family, had an estimated length of between 11 and 15 meters.

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The research that has also been published in the renowned Scientific Reports journal under Nature platform, stated that the fossils had been...