A mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...

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 ...

Sixty million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had vanished, a new ruler emerged in the sweltering rainforests of South America. It wasn’t a dinosaur, a crocodile, or any creature we might expect, ...

After developing coordinates for individual Titanoboa vertebrae, Head and Polly used the model to position them in their correct spinal location and determine Titanoboa ’s length.The team published ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some estimates suggesting it stretched longer than a modern city bus and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Titanoboa was the biggest, baddest boa that ever lived! Take a trip to crocodile heaven and sing a song to the ...

Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live. Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live - as Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical ...

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 ...