A mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...

Bloch laughed. “I don’t think so.” Eventually they agreed that Titanoboa ’s skull was different from that of other boas, but they couldn’t determine if the extinct animal was more closely related to a ...

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 ...

Some prehistoric creatures are so extraordinary, they feel like something out of a science fiction film. Among these ancient wonders was a colossal serpent that once roamed the Earth—Titanoboa ...

The lord of this jungle was a truly spectacular creature—a snake more than 40 feet long and weighing more than a ton. This giant serpent looked something like a modern-day boa constrictor, but behaved ...