New York commuters arriving at Grand Central Station were greeted by a monstrous sight: a 48-foot-long, 2,500-pound titanoboa snake. The good news: It's not alive. Anymore. But the full-scale replica ...

Discover Titanoboa cerrejonesis, the largest snake in history, found in Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine. A remarkable prehistoric find. The giant serpent is closely related to today's boas and anacondas ...

NEW YORK – A strange sight accosted visitors at Grand Central Station last week: a gigantic snake. A life-size model of the 60-million-year-old Titanoboa has taken stage at the train terminal, an ...

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, ...

WILMINGTON — From a fossil bed deep within Colombia’s Cerrejon coal mine, scientists have uncovered remains of the largest snake in the world — Titanoboa. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- How could a snake grow to 48 feet in length and weigh 2,500 pounds? That's the question the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University seeks to answer with its new traveling ...

A terrifying 48-foot, 2,500lb predator that slithered through rainforests 60 million years ago has been brought back to life by the Smithsonian. In the wake of the dinosaurs, other predators battled ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

It's the matchup you've been waiting for, the clash between some of the biggest titans that ever roamed the Earth. From the ...