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

New York commuters arriving at Grand Central Station were greeted by a monstrous sight: a 48-foot-long, 2,500-pound titanoboa snake. The good news: It's not alive. Anymore. But the full-scale replica ...

Discover Titanoboa cerrejonesis, the largest snake in history, found in Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine. A remarkable prehistoric find. The giant serpent is closely related to today's boas and anacondas ...

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

NEW YORK – 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 ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON — From a fossil bed deep within Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine, scientists have uncovered remains of the largest snake in the world — Titanoboa. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at ...

PHILADELPHIA -- How could a snake grow to 48 feet in length and weigh 2,500 pounds? That's the question the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University seeks to answer with its new traveling ...

Fossil remains of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a 58-million-year-old snake, have been discovered in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine. This extinct serpent, reaching up to 14 meters and weighing over a tonne, ...

Similar to Titanoboa, pictured in the artist illustration above, this new species of snake was probably an ambush predator.Credit: Jason Bourque/Florida Museum of Natural History Titanoboa has long ...

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 ...