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Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed.

Two Indian paleontologists stumbled upon a fascinating find while fossil hunting in a coal mine. Initially, they expected to find prehistoric whale fossils, but they discovered 27 vertebrae that ...

Scientists call it Titanoboa cerrejonensis. It was the largest snake ever, and if its astounding size alone wasn’t enough to dazzle the most sunburned fossil hunter, the fact of its existence ...

(CNN)-- Scientists in Colombia have unearthed the remains of a true prehistoric monster believed to be the biggest snake ever to have ... tail tip -- dwarfing the largest modern pythons and ...

Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake fossil discovered in Gujarat ... which is said to have reached a whopping size of 49 feet, is one of the largest discovered, even larger than the fabled ...

The prehistoric snake Titanoboa certainly lived up to its ... "After the extinction of the dinosaurs, this animal, the Titanoboa, was the largest predator on the surface of the planet for at ...