That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake ...

As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young ...

Known as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the extinct snake’s fossilised remains were discovered in Cerrejón coal mine in northern Colombia in 2009, and the numbers behind the beast are nightmare-inducing.