When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

The largest snake that ever lived is known as the Titanoboa; however, researchers in India may have unearthed fossils of a snake that rivaled its monstrous size: the recently discovered Vasuki indicus ...

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A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...

The biggest living snake is the green anaconda, found in South America. Ancient snakes, like the Titanoboa, were orders of magnitude larger. Here’s what we know about the famed “titan boa.” The recent ...

A fossil of a brand new species of ancient snake has been uncovered in India, and it may have been one of the largest snakes to have ever existed. In comparison, the largest modern-day snakes are the ...

This is the Titanoboa. One the of the largest and deadliest snakes to ever exist. It went extinct 55 million years ago. But ...

Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they uncovered the fossilized remains of a partial vertebral column in Western India.

From Titanoboa and Vasuki — prehistoric snakes as long as a Tyrannosaurus rex — to modern-day pythons and boa constrictors that can swallow humans whole, these are the biggest, heaviest and longest ...

Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Slithering in at 48 feet long and weighing an estimated one-and-a-half tons, a realistic replica of the world’s largest snake is on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...