Imagine this: A snake-like creature as long as a bus glides through the sea–on the hunt. Sounds like a nightmare? Fortunately, it remains just that, as this animal has long been extinct. Fossils of ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest snake that ever slithered across our planet. Discovered in a Colombian coal ...

A mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...