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. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

In the lush prehistoric jungles of what is now northern Colombia, a colossal predator once ruled the swampy lowlands. The Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a now-extinct snake species, is believed to be the ...