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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...

After developing coordinates for individual Titanoboa vertebrae, Head and Polly used the model to position them in their correct spinal location and determine Titanoboa ’s length.The team published ...

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 ...

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history. Courtesy ...

Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live. Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live - as Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical ...

If Spielberg ever plans to produce Jurassic Park 4, he should enlist the services of the team that built Titanoboa: A 35-foot electro-mechanical snake. Weighing in at a ton, Titanoboa—named after a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Photographing the monster snake is no easy task. Find out how photographer Robert Clark used lighting to bring titanoboa to life. Check to see if ...