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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

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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 ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...