Reptiles Giant extinct snake discovered in India was 50 feet long, said researchers Snake likely was not very fast and killed its prey by constriction, said Indian researchers ...

Giant snakes weren’t confined to land: Earth’s prehistoric seas also contained leviathans, such as Palaeophis colossaeus. This sea serpent traversed an ancient ocean that once lay over parts ...

This giant, extinct snake is named after Vasuki, the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism. Its fossilized vertebrae indicate it was a fully grown adult and that it was likely between 36 feet and ...

The only other snake with a similar length is the extinct Titanoboa, which is believed to be the world's largest snake, measuring 45 to 50 feet long and three feet wide.. The madtsoiidae family of ...

A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to ...

First unearthed in 2009 in a Cerrejón coal mine in northern Colombia, the titanoboa is a snake of intimidating proportions. Estimated to be 45 to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this giant snake ...

The extinct snake lived during the Paleocene Epoch, approximately 66 million to 56 million years ago and is considered "the largest known member of the suborder Serpentes," according to Britannica.

A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago, according to new research. The extinct snake may have been one of the largest to ...

Although this snake is no longer present today as it went extinct about 60 million years ago. It measured 13 meters (about 42 feet) in length and hence, Titanoboa is the winner.

The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest venomous snake.In 1937, a 5.54-metre-long king cobra was found in Negeri Sembilan state on the Malay Peninsula. Captured and kept at London ...