Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

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 the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anterior trunk vertebrae of Vasuki indicus. Sunil Bajpai, co-author of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the Indian ...

It sounds like something fabricated in a nightmare — a 48-foot-long snake that weighs 2,500 pounds. But the titanoboa cerrejonensis isn't a mythical creature. It slithered on Earth, dining on ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

This giant serpent looked something like a modern-day boa constrictor, but behaved more like today’s water-dwelling anaconda. It was a swamp denizen and a fearsome predator, able to eat any animal ...

Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live. Discover the secrets of the Titanoboa - the largest snake to ever live - as Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical ...