Scientists in western India have uncovered fossil remains of a gargantuan prehistoric snake that may have been one of the ...

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 ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...

Scientists in India have unearthed fossil remains of Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake potentially reaching 49 feet in length, making it one of the largest ever. Discovered in Gujarat, the 27 ...

It sounds like something fabricated in a nightmare — a 48-foot-long snake that weighs 2,500 pounds. But the titanoboa cerrejonensis isn't a mythical creature. It slithered on Earth, dining on ...

Enter the land of the reptilian monsters and other extinct beasts Donald R. Prothero A model of "Titanoboa" in Prague's Harfa Dinosaur Park on the roof of the Galerie Harfa shopping centre. Mojmir ...

Slithering in at 48 feet long and weighing an estimated one-and-a-half tons, a realistic replica of the world’s largest snake is on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...

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