Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute shares the incredible story of the Titanoboa, a colossal snake that lived 60 million years ago. He explains how its fossils were ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had vanished, a new ruler emerged in the sweltering rainforests of South America. It wasn’t a dinosaur, a crocodile, or any creature we might expect, ...

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 ...