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 ...

Imagine a snake so large it could span the length of a city bus. This isn’t a creature from a horror film, but a real animal that once dominated the Earth. The Titanoboa, a massive serpent that lived ...

Beneath ordinary ground, discoveries still wait that quietly redraw assumptions about life long before humans paid attention. Fossils tend to arrive in fragments, then patterns start forming, and ...