Imagine a snake so large it could span the length of a city bus. This isn’t a creature from a horror film, but a real animal that once dominated the Earth. The Titanoboa, a massive serpent that lived ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

However, the image was not of any snake fossil but a gigantic art installation. If you've been on social media in the last few days, you've probably seen a video that purports to show the world's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute shares the incredible story of the Titanoboa, a colossal snake that lived 60 million years ago. He explains how its fossils were ...

As a part of their documentary, the Smithsonian Channel asked sculptor Kevin Hockley to create a full-size replica of Titanoboa. Robert Clark/Institute Titanoboa, pictured with a dyrosaur and a turtle ...