A restoration of Titanoboa (foreground) in its natural setting. (By Jason Bourque, image from Wikipedia.) When I was growing up I used to spend hours poring over the Time/Life series of nature books ...

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 ...

Some snakes alive today can grow to enormous sizes. There are tales of some large snakes, such as the anaconda or reticulated python, growing to 20 to 30 feet. Millions of years ago, however, an even ...

Sixty million years ago, in the sweltering rainforests of South America, Titanoboa emerged as the apex predator. This immense snake, reaching nearly 45 feet and weighing 2,500 pounds, crushed ...

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 ...

— -- A snake stretching longer than a school bus and too thick to fit through a doorway may sound like a creature in a Hollywood bio-horror flick, but this one actually ruled the roost on part of ...

A new video of the Titanoboa, eatArt’s latest creation, shows off the robot in action against their Mondo Spider walking machine. A new video of the Titanoboa, eatArt’s latest creation, shows off the ...

The fossil has been named after Vasuki, the snake king associated with Lord Shiva. Scientists have said that a fossil vertebrae unearthed in Gujarat are the remains of the largest snake that ever ...

Scientists in India have unearthed the fossil remains of Vasuki indicus, one of the largest snakes to have ever slithered the ...

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 ...

Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new. In the past several years, we've seen ones designed to swim through debris, help out at construction sites, perform surveillance, and ...