Some snakes alive today can grow to enormous sizes. There are tales of some large snakes, such as the anaconda or reticulated python, growing to 20 to 30 feet. Millions of years ago, however, an even ...

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 ...

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. The exhibit doesn’t feature a replica of what most people would ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Photographing the monster snake is no easy task. Find out how photographer Robert Clark used lighting to bring titanoboa to life. Check to see if ...

Titanoboa was the largest snake ever known to have slithered the Earth. It stunned the scientific world in 2009, when a team of researchers announced the discovery of a massive snake fossil found in ...

Sixty million years ago, the rainforest had a king. It was not a dinosaur or a crocodile. It was a snake so large it defies belief. It was called Titanoboa. It was 45 feet long, the massive snake. It ...

Recent fossil discoveries have ignited a debate over the largest snake ever. Titanoboa, unearthed in Colombia, stretched up to 50 feet and possessed immense crushing power. However, Vasuki indicus, ...