The biggest living snake is the green anaconda, found in South America. Ancient snakes, like the Titanoboa, were orders of magnitude larger. Here’s what we know about the famed “titan boa.” The recent ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most boas, which are a type of large, non-venomous ...

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 creature ...

Imagine a snake so enormous it could block a doorway. Scientists recently uncovered Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever known. This giant lived 58 million years ago, shortly after ...

60 million years ago the Earth’s climate was much warmer than it is now — due to natural climate change — which allowed cold-blooded snakes like the Titanoboa to grow to mammoth proportions. The group ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest snake that ever slithered across our planet. Discovered in a Colombian coal ...

The world's heaviest snakes, including the green anaconda and Burmese python, showcase remarkable size and strength. The green anaconda is the heaviest living snake, while the reticulated python is ...