Most people have never heard of the Cerrejón coal mine, located in Colombia. The mine pumps out over 30 million tons of coal each year, and it's also become a critical site for scientists. In fact, ...

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A delicate baby snake with a remarkably well-preserved skeletal structure is the first of its kind ever found fossilized in amber. At 99 million years old, the fossil is also the oldest snake known ...

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 ...

Dino-era relative of Aussie snakes enjoyed hatchlings, over easy. The discovery of a 67-million-year-old fossil snake coiled around the remains of a newly-hatched dinosaur egg indicates that this ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

Sixty million years ago, the rainforest had a king. It was not a dinosaur or a crocodile. It was a snake so large it defies belief. It was called Titanoboa. It was 45 feet long, the massive snake. It ...