Titanoboa is a robotic life-size replica of a prehistoric snake, created to bring attention to our society's reliance on fossil fuels. Robotic snakes are - perhaps surprisingly - nothing all that new.

Titanoboa: The new Smithsonian ... The water-bound Icththysaur was roughly 50 feet long, weighing 30 tons, a rough hybrid of a dolphin and a blue whale. The Ground Sloth was the size of today's ...

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 ...

The Titanoboa—the largest known snake to ever exist—was as long as a school bus, growing to an estimated 50 feet long and 3 feet wide.

Titanoboa is largest snake ever found and lived around 60 million years ago. Image: CC Ryan Quick. In an episode titled Graveyard of the Giant Beasts, Secrets of the Dead investigates which ...

Titanoboa‘s fossilised vertebra showed that it was a whopping 13 metres (42 feet) long.By comparison, the largest verifiable record for a living snake belongs to a 10-metre-long reticulated ...

— -- A snake stretching longer than a school bus and too thick to fit through a doorway may sound like a creature in a Hollywood bio-horror flick, but this one actually ruled the roost on ...

How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found In Colombia, the fossil of a gargantuan snake has stunned scientists, forcing them to rethink the nature of prehistoric life ...

New York commuters arriving at Grand Central Station were greeted by a monstrous sight: a 48-foot-long, 2,500-pound titanoboa snake. The good news: It's not alive. Anymore. But the full-scale ...