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 ...

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a snake that rivaled its monstrous size: the recently discovered Vasuki indicus ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some estimates suggesting it stretched longer than a modern city bus and ...

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 ...

'It was honestly one of the best filmmaking experiences of my career,' says producer Jeremy Bolt of the Colombia shoot of 'Titan,' inspired by an article about the prehistoric Titanoboa, the biggest ...

Scientists call it Titanoboa cerrejonensis. It was the largest snake ever, and if its astounding size alone wasn’t enough to dazzle the most sunburned fossil hunter, the fact of its existence may have ...

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 ...

If Spielberg ever plans to produce Jurassic Park 4, he should enlist the services of the team that built Titanoboa: A 35-foot electro-mechanical snake. Weighing in at a ton, Titanoboa—named after a ...

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 ...