As a part of their documentary, the Smithsonian Channel asked sculptor Kevin Hockley to create a full-size replica of Titanoboa. Robert Clark/Institute Titanoboa, pictured with a dyrosaur and a turtle ...

The biggest living snake is the green anaconda, found in South America. Ancient snakes, like the Titanoboa, were orders of magnitude larger. Here’s what we know about the famed “titan boa.” The recent ...

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In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery, scientists have uncovered fossil remains of a prehistoric snake that challenges everything we know about reptilian evolution. Called Titanoboa ...

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Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they uncovered the fossilized remains of a partial vertebral column in Western India.

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 ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

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 ...

Scientists call it Titanoboa cerrejonensis. It was the largest snake ever, and if its astounding size alone wasn’t enough to dazzle the most sunburned fossil hunter, the fact of its existence may have ...