This is the Titanoboa. One the of the largest and deadliest snakes to ever exist. It went extinct 55 million years ago. But what if that never happened?

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

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 ...

Experts examined the bones they discovered at the Cerrejón mine. They recognized that although it was the size of a crocodile vertebrae, it actually belonged to a snake. Anacondas are the largest ...

Imagine a snake so enormous it could block a doorway. Scientists recently uncovered Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever known. This giant lived 58 million years ago, shortly after ...

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 ...

Since the formation of Earth, countless creatures have been born and have gone extinct. Snakes are incredible creatures, and there have been some studies about them in which it was proposed that there ...

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, ...

What started as a routine coal mine excavation quickly turned into one of the most shocking paleontological discoveries ever—the fossil remains of Titanoboa, the largest snake that ever lived. This ...

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a snake that rivaled its monstrous size: the recently discovered Vasuki indicus ...