Fossil remains of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a 58-million-year-old snake, have been discovered in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine. This extinct serpent, reaching up to 14 meters and weighing over a tonne, ...

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, a snake measuring 50 foot (15 meters) and weighing one-and-a-half-tons roamed some of the Earth's earliest tropical rainforests. Titanoboa cerrejonensis was the largest snake ...

Titanoboa was a massive snake similar to today's anaconda, but a prehistoric apex predator. Learn where it was located and why it went extinct. Titanoboa, also known as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, was a ...

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of two colossal prehistoric snakes, Titanoboa and Vasuki Indicus, which once dominated ancient ecosystems. Titanoboa, discovered in Colombia, lived around 58-60 ...

Scientists have recovered fossils of a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and more cuddly. Named ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Scientists have recovered fossils from a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose length and weight might make today's anacondas and reticulated pythons seem a bit cuter and ...