In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping ...

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 ...

A 49-foot prehistoric snake, Vasuki indicus, has been discovered in India, rewriting our understanding of ancient reptiles. Living around 47 million years ago, this colossal constrictor was longer ...

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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 ...

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 ...

'It was honestly one of the best filmmaking experiences of my career,' says producer Jeremy Bolt of the Colombia shoot of 'Titan,' inspired by an article about the prehistoric Titanoboa, the biggest ...

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 ...

MARTINSVILLE – For the past nine years, South American snake fossils have interested Dr. Alex Hastings. Studying them has become a hobby for the assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia ...