Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Long after the dinosaurs, a new giant ruled the ancient swamps - Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever seen. In ...

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of two colossal prehistoric snakes, Titanoboa and Vasuki Indicus, which once dominated ancient ecosystems. Tita ...

Titanoboa is the most massive snake to have ever lived on Earth; or was it? Scientists have recently discovered another huge ...

Fossil remains unearthed in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, dating back 58 million ye ...

— -- A snake stretching longer than a school bus and too thick to fit through a doorway may sound like a creature in a Hollywood bio-horror flick, but this one actually ruled the roost on ...

Titanoboa is largest snake ever found and lived around 60 million years ago. Image: CC Ryan Quick. In an episode titled Graveyard of the Giant Beasts, Secrets of the Dead investigates which ...

The Titanoboa was extremely large; many scientists estimate that this snake reached lengths of 42-47 feet and weighed up to 2,500 pounds! Fossils of the Titanoboa were first discovered in northern ...

Titanoboa: The new Smithsonian exhibit in Grand Central Station displays a replica of the largest snake in history, the 48-foot titanoboa. Why don't huge snakes exist today?

A strange sight accosted visitors at Grand Central Station last week: a gigantic snake. A life-size model of the 60-million-year-old Titanoboa has taken stage at the train terminal, an ...

Titanoboa, at 48 feet long and 2,500 pounds, dwarfs today’s anaconda, which measures 20 feet and weighs 330 pounds. Bloch said the snake was so large due to a much warmer climate.