The biggest living snake is the green anaconda, found in South America. Ancient snakes, like the Titanoboa, were orders of magnitude larger. Here’s what we know about the famed “titan boa.” The recent ...

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 ...

The remains of what is possibly the largest snake that ever lived have been found in India - and it's a total monster!

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 ...

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, ...

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 terrifying 48-foot, 2,500lb predator that slithered through rainforests 60 million years ago has been brought back to life by the Smithsonian. In the wake of the dinosaurs, other predators battled ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It didn’t fly or roar– it slithered, and it did so with incredible strength.

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 ...