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

The "jaw-dropping" extinction event will feature more than 20 life-sized recreations of species that have been lost through time, including a six-metre-long woolly mammoth, a hissing titanoboa and a ...

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Imagine an ancient world where shadows stretched beneath colossal trees, and the air shimmered with heat and humidity. In this realm, a creature longer than a school bus slithered silently through ...

Among these ancient wonders was a colossal serpent that once roamed the Earth—Titanoboa cerrejonensis. Unlike other fearsome predators, Titanoboa didn’t rely on venom or speed. What made it ...

In 2009, the discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis fossils in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine revealed a massive snake that lived 58 to 60 million years ago. This apex predator, reaching up to 47 ...

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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.

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