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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in western India, scientists have uncovered fossil vertebrae from the largest snake ever to ...

Before humans ever appeared and not long after the dinosaurs went extinct, a new giant rose to the top of the food chain. It ...

Imagine an ancient world where shadows stretched beneath colossal trees, and the air shimmered with heat and humidity. In ...

In 2009, the discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis fossils in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine revealed a massive snake that lived 58 to 60 million years ago. This apex predator, reaching up to 47 ...

The prehistoric snake Titanoboa certainly lived up to ... The discovery of the Titanoboa fossil at a coal mine in Colombia, South America, has helped reveal quite a bit about the past ...

Not to worry. They preferred eating crocodiles and giant turtles. And the discovery was of snake fossils (mostly backbones) in the remote jungles of Colombia; the snakes, called Titanoboas ...