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 ...

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, ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Titanoboa is largest snake ever found and lived around 60 million years ago. Image: CC Ryan Quick In an episode titled Graveyard of the Giant Beasts, Secrets of the Dead investigates which creature ...

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 ...

60 million years ago the Earth’s climate was much warmer than it is now — due to natural climate change — which allowed cold-blooded snakes like the Titanoboa to grow to mammoth proportions. The group ...

In the wild, titanoboa probably ate large crocodiles, fish and other snakes—but if there were a titanoboa at the National Zoo today, what would the zoo keepers feed it? The Wildest Reality Show in ...

The world's heaviest snakes, including the green anaconda and Burmese python, showcase remarkable size and strength. The green anaconda is the heaviest living snake, while the reticulated python is ...

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