More than 55 million years ago, a giant predator ruled the swamps of ancient South America. Titanoboa was the largest snake ever discovered, reaching lengths of around 15 meters (50 feet) and weighing ...

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Scientists uncovered fossils from Titanoboa, a snake estimated to have reached nearly 50 feet and weighed around 2,500 pounds ...

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 ...

Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host a free film screening of the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary Titanoboa: Monster Snake March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the museum’s Baird ...

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, ...

Sixty million years ago, in the sweltering rainforests of South America, Titanoboa emerged as the apex predator. This immense snake, reaching nearly 45 feet and weighing 2,500 pounds, crushed ...

Sixty million years ago, not long after the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, a different giant emerged from the swamps of South America. Titanoboa cerrejonensis was unlike any snake ...

Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new. In the past several years, we've seen ones designed to swim through debris, help out at construction sites, perform surveillance, and ...