Sixty million years ago, long after the dinosaurs had vanished, a new ruler emerged in the sweltering rainforests of South America. It wasn’t a dinosaur, a crocodile, or any creature we might expect, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

The longest snake native to North America is the Eastern indigo snake, which can reach lengths of almost nine feet. While Eastern indigo snakes were historically found in parts of Louisiana, they are ...