A restoration of Titanoboa (foreground) in its natural setting. (By Jason Bourque, image from Wikipedia.) When I was growing up I used to spend hours poring over the Time/Life series of nature books ...

Sixty million years ago, in the sweltering rainforests of South America, Titanoboa emerged as the apex predator. This immense snake, reaching nearly 45 feet and weighing 2,500 pounds, crushed ...

Paleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized bones from one of the largest snakes ever discovered. In a study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers suggest the ...

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 ...

— -- 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 part of ...

A new video of the Titanoboa, eatArt’s latest creation, shows off the robot in action against their Mondo Spider walking machine. A new video of the Titanoboa, eatArt’s latest creation, shows off the ...

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 ...

Discover Titanoboa cerrejonesis, the largest snake in history, found in Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine. A remarkable prehistoric find. The giant serpent is closely related to today's boas and anacondas ...

Follow the evolution of the Titanoboa if it had survived to modern times. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix ...

Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new. In the past several years, we've seen ones designed to swim through debris, help out at construction sites, perform surveillance, and ...