Anacondas are already among the largest snakes on the planet, capable of reaching staggering lengths and incredible weights. But one individual stands out in the record books. Discover how large the ...

Earth may not host kaiju-level behemoth snakes like Titanoboa or Vasuki anymore, but it still has some pretty large specimens ...

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 ...

A mechanical constraint prevented the Titanoboa from lifting more than 1/5 of its body to strike. Counter-intuitively, the world’s largest apex predator was unearthed deep within the Cerrejón coal ...

Today the team measures some of the largest snakes in their collection to see just how big they’ve grown. Using string and tape measures to follow the length of each snake’s spine, they carefully ...

How many types of snakes are there? It's hard to quantify with one final answer because it changes. The short answer is that ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A snake that looks similar to and sounds like a rattlesnake but isn't a rattlesnake? Meet the gopher snake, the biggest snake ...