Titanoboa. This largest snake in the world used to live 60–58 million years ago in what's now called Colombia. Its fossil was discovered in the early 2000s. But in 2005, a million-year-old ...

Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake fossil discovered in Gujarat, India, measures an astounding 49 feet in length, surpassing even the Titanoboa. This 47-million-year-old giant from the Eocene ...

Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide insights into the evolution of marine snakes and their adaptations to aquatic ...

Named after the mythical serpent Vasuki from Hindu mythology, it belonged to the now-extinct Madtsoiidae family, a group of ...

This giant snake grew up to 15 meters (49 feet) long, making it one of the longest ever found. Its fossils were discovered in 2004, but scientists identified it as a new species only in 2024. It was ...

In 2022, we started re-examining the fossil. Initially, due to its size, I thought it was of a crocodile. But then we realised it was of a snake and it turned out to be the biggest in its family ...

There was also the man-sized bulge in the snake’s body. What follows isn’t a strict rundown of the largest snakes ever recorded, as that would mostly involve pythons of slightly different lengths.

With an estimated length of 36 to 50 feet, Vasuki Indicus rivaled Titanoboa, the largest known snake, and may have weighed around 2,200 pounds. This ancient snake thrived in warm temperatures of ...