Imagine a snake so large it could span the length of a city bus. This isn’t a creature from a horror film, but a real animal that once dominated the Earth. The Titanoboa, a massive serpent that lived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passersby at Grand Central Station in New York City will have a new phenomenon to ogle at during their morning commutes on Thursday: a display of the world’s largest snake to ever live, the titanoboa, ...

In 2009 researchers in northeastern Colombia discovered fossils of the largest known snake in the world, a prehistoric creature dubbed Titanoboa cerrejonensis (titanoboa) that lived 58 to 60 million ...

Researchers didn’t quite know what to do with Titanoboa. At first, they called it an ancient crocodile. Hailing from the earliest Colombian rain forests, a team of researchers from the University of ...

Over 55 million years ago, the Earth was home to the Titanoboa, one of the largest snakes ever to live. Longer than a school bus, heavier than a polar bear, and powerful enough to kill crocodiles, ...

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 ...

Titanoboa and anaconda differ significantly, with the extinct titanoboa being much larger at 40-50 feet and 2500+ pounds compared to the 15-20 feet, 200-300 pound anaconda. Both thrive in tropical ...