With Titanoboa, enormous was the rule, not the exception. The Cerrejón team had found what appeared to be an authentic primeval monster. Titanoboa was as long as a school bus and weighed as much as a ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most boas, which are a type of large, non-venomous ...

In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil remains of a prehistoric snake that challenges everything we know about reptilian evolution. Called Titanoboa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earth, our dynamic and life-sustaining planet, is approximately 4.543 billion years old. Over these vast eons, it has undergone dramatic transformations—from fiery origins and shifting continents to ...

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 ...

Scientists call it Titanoboa cerrejonensis. It was the largest snake ever, and if its astounding size alone wasn’t enough to dazzle the most sunburned fossil hunter, the fact of its existence may have ...