Titanoboa cerrejonensis stretched an unimaginable 42 to 50 feet long and weighed over a ton—dwarfing today’s largest snakes. Its fossils, first unearthed in Colombia’s Cerrejón coal mines ...

Titanoboa was a member of the taxonomic order Squamata, which is the same order that boa constrictors, anacondas, and pythons belong to. Titanoboa far outmatched its modern relatives though, being ...

Titanoboa is largest snake ever found and lived around 60 million years ago. Image: CC Ryan Quick. In an episode titled Graveyard of the Giant Beasts, Secrets of the Dead investigates which ...

Titanoboa‘s fossilised vertebra showed that it was a whopping 13 metres (42 feet) long.By comparison, the largest verifiable record for a living snake belongs to a 10-metre-long reticulated ...

— -- 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: All About Giant Extinct Snake Species Made Famous By Internet The post brought the internet to a halt, and why not! The tweet also gave rise to speculation about Titanoboa, the largest ...

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.

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?

WILMINGTON — From a fossil bed deep within Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine, scientists have uncovered remains of the largest snake in the world — Titanoboa. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing ...

Titanoboa lived 60 million years ago, in the first rainforests. This recreation was put up in Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall. (Jennifer Welsh / LiveScience.com) ...

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.