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 ...

Long after the dinosaurs, a new giant ruled the ancient swamps - Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever seen. In ...

Titanoboa is the most massive snake to have ever lived on Earth; or was it? Scientists have recently discovered another huge ...

Fossil remains unearthed in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, ...

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?

— -- 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 ...

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.

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 ...

New York commuters arriving at Grand Central Station were greeted by a monstrous sight: a 48-foot-long, 2,500-pound titanoboa snake. The good news: It's not alive. Anymore. But the full-scale ...

Titanoboa came to life in 2007. John Bloch, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum, went to Colombia in 2004. It was the first chance he had to get down to the ...