Paleontology curator Dr. Alex Hastings helped discover Titanoboa, a giant prehistoric snake that was as long as a school bus and weighed more than a ton, during undergraduate fieldwork in Colombia.
Learn about what it was like to discover this new species, and discover how the research team concluded that this monster snake ate crocodiles in a single gulp! See a model of Titanoboa, compare it to a modern-day snake, and learn what this ancient snake might reveal about our warming climate.
