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 ...

Titanoboa was the largest snake ever known to have slithered the Earth. It stunned the scientific world in 2009, when a team of researchers announced the discovery of a massive snake fossil found in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. About as thick as a standard dictionary, this turtle’s shell may have warded off attacks by the Titanoboa, thought to have been the world’s ...