NEW YORK – A strange sight accosted visitors at Grand Central Station last week: a gigantic snake. A life-size model of the 60-million-year-old Titanoboa has taken stage at the train terminal, an ...

Some snakes alive today can grow to enormous sizes. There are tales of some large snakes, such as the anaconda or reticulated python, growing to 20 to 30 feet. Millions of years ago, however, an even ...

EXCLUSIVE: German powerhouse Constantin Film and U.S. outfit JB Pictures are fast-tracking development on an as-yet-untitled action-horror movie based on the re-emergence of giant snake the Titanoboa.

Titanoboa and anaconda differ significantly, with the extinct titanoboa being much larger at 40-50 feet and 2500+ pounds compared to the 15-20 feet, 200-300 pound anaconda. Both thrive in tropical ...

A restoration of Titanoboa (foreground) in its natural setting. (By Jason Bourque, image from Wikipedia.) When I was growing up I used to spend hours poring over the Time/Life series of nature books ...

Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new. In the past several years, we've seen ones designed to swim through debris, help out at construction sites, perform surveillance, and ...

Snakes can be the object of horror for some, with 2% to 3% of the world having ophidiophobia (a great fear of snakes), according to a study published in Psychiatry Research. Others note that snakes ...

Titanoboa was the largest snake ever known to have slithered the Earth. It stunned the scientific world in 2009, when a team of researchers announced the discovery of a massive snake fossil found in ...

In 2009 researchers in northeastern Colombia discovered fossils of the largest known snake in the world, a prehistoric creature dubbed Titanoboa cerrejonensis (titanoboa) that lived 58 to 60 million ...