About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose to the top of ...

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 ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

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 ...

The snake skull embraced by the Cerrejón shale mudstone was a piece of Titanoboa that Bloch, Head and their colleagues had been hoping to find for years. “It offers a whole new set of characteristics, ...

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 ...

From Titanoboa and Vasuki — prehistoric snakes as long as a Tyrannosaurus rex — to modern-day pythons and boa constrictors that can swallow humans whole, these are the biggest, heaviest and longest ...

Slithering in at 48 feet long and weighing an estimated one-and-a-half tons, a realistic replica of the world’s largest snake is on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...