For a long time, the idea of giant animals has mostly been tied to dinosaurs on land. Oceans feel different, quieter, even ...

It is thought that this giant snake lived in the ancient seas during the Eocene epoch, about 56 to 34 million years ago.

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

This is the Titanoboa. One the of the largest and deadliest snakes to ever exist. It went extinct 55 million years ago. But ...

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 ...

Experience what dying to a Titanoboa would actually feel like in a fight with the prehistoric predator. Washington Post editorial says Mamdani 'drops the mask' after election win, offers 'seething' ...

Experts examined the bones they discovered at the Cerrejón mine. They recognized that although it was the size of a crocodile vertebrae, it actually belonged to a snake. Anacondas are the largest ...

Imagine a snake so enormous it could block a doorway. Scientists recently uncovered Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever known. This giant lived 58 million years ago, shortly after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the formation of Earth, countless creatures have been born and have gone extinct. Snakes are incredible creatures, and there have been some studies about them in which it was proposed that there ...