Sixty million years ago, not long after the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, a different giant emerged from the swamps of South America. Titanoboa cerrejonensis was unlike any snake ...
However, the image was not of any snake fossil but a gigantic art installation. If you've been on social media in the last few days, you've probably seen a video that purports to show the world's ...
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, 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 ...
NEW YORK – 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 ...
Similar to Titanoboa, pictured in the artist illustration above, this new species of snake was probably an ambush predator.Credit: Jason Bourque/Florida Museum of Natural History Titanoboa has long ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host a free film screening of the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary Titanoboa: Monster Snake March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the museum’s Baird ...