By comparison, the green anaconda can grow up to 8 meters and weighs around 250 kg, while the reticulated python can exceed 9 ...

(CNN)-- Scientists in Colombia have unearthed the remains of a true prehistoric monster believed to be the biggest snake ever to have lived on Earth. Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the snake would ...

Snake skulls are made of several delicate bones ... Nine years later, Fabiany Herrera, an undergraduate geology student at Colombia’s Industrial University of Santander, in Bucaramanga, visited ...

Known as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the extinct snake’s fossilised remains were discovered in Cerrejón coal mine in northern Colombia in 2009, and the numbers behind the beast are nightmare-inducing.

Partial skeletons of a new giant, boa constrictor-like snake named "Titanoboa" found in Colombia by an international team of scientists and now at the University of Florida are estimated to be 42 ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San ...

hidden deep within the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. The eyelash vipers were all previously thought to be part of a single species, but research into the snakes kicked off after a ...

an island 21 miles off Colombia's Pacific coast. The boots provide traction in the mud — and protection from poisonous snakes. The presence of scary reptiles is just one reason why the park ...

In the lush prehistoric jungles of what is now northern Colombia, a colossal predator once ruled the swampy lowlands. The Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a now-extinct snake species, is believed to be ...

Archaeologists have fully mapped a series of ancient rock art in Venezuela and Colombia, including the ... the Upper and Middle Orinoco River, which snakes through this region of South America.

The snake in his grip is known locally as a mapaná, and this species is responsible for most of the snakebites in Colombia. Asprilla has been bitten twice since he started working at the ...