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 was as long as a school bus and weighed as much as a small rhino. Aside from the boid-style vertebrae, however, that was about all that could be said about the creature at first.

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 ...

— -- A snake stretching longer than a school bus and too thick to fit through a doorway may sound like a creature in a Hollywood bio-horror flick, but this one actually ruled the roost on ...

The Titanoboa was extremely large; many scientists estimate that this snake reached lengths of 42-47 feet and weighed up to 2,500 pounds! Fossils of the Titanoboa were first discovered in northern ...

Titanoboa: The new Smithsonian exhibit in Grand Central Station displays a replica of the largest snake in history, the 48-foot titanoboa. Why don't huge snakes exist today?

Titanoboa, at 48 feet long and 2,500 pounds, dwarfs today’s anaconda, which measures 20 feet and weighs 330 pounds. Bloch said the snake was so large due to a much warmer climate.

A strange sight accosted visitors at Grand Central Station last week: a gigantic snake. A life-size model of the 60-million-year-old Titanoboa has taken stage at the train terminal, an ...

Titanoboa is a robotic life-size replica of a prehistoric snake, created to bring attention to our society's reliance on fossil fuels. Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new.

If you have a fear of snakes, the latest exhibit at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall might make your skin crawl.